A signaling management method for managing signaling in a telecommunications network, in which, in normal operation, access equipment (21) of said network specifies a registration refresh period P to a terminal (10, 11). According to the invention, after said access equipment (21) has detected a fault affecting the network core (22) and then the access equipment (21) has received a registration refresh request from said terminal (10, 11), the access equipment (21): determines the duration R that remains for the registration in the network core (22) for the terminal (10, 11), and also determines the actual refresh period Q as implemented by the terminal (10, 11) in response to the access equipment (21) specifying thereto a refresh period equal to P; and in the event that R≧Q, the access equipment (21) sends registration confirmation to the terminal (10, 11) without relaying said request to the network core (22).