Emergency call handling may, in the near future, require terminal unit location information to be provided to emergency service centers. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention facilitate the provision of this information by reducing a number of monitoring stations needed to track terminal location based upon control channel access. First, mobile units placing emergency calls can be forced to used designated control channels which may differ from control channels to which they are currently listening. Second, mobile units may be required to transmit at greater than specified power levels so that monitoring stations receive their emergency call access.