A multimedia mobile communication system for recovering a handoff failure comprises: a hybrid access terminal; a base station transceiver subsystem for transmitting and receiving the voice and the data; a base station a mobile switching center a 1xEV-DO transceiver, and an access network controller for controlling the handoff by transmitting a traffic channel assignment signal when there is no response from the hybrid access terminal upon receiving the route update signal from the hybrid access terminal and transmitting the traffic channel assignment signal in response to the route update signal and a packet data serving node.