Mobile Access Hunting (MAH) causes a call to a Pilot Directory Number to search a list of termination addresses sequentially for one that is idle and able to be alerted. If a particular termination address is busy, inactive, fails to respond to a paging request, or does not answer alerting before a time-out, then the next termination address in the list is tried. Only one termination address is alerted at a time. The mobile telephones in the group may be alerted using distinctive alerting. Additional calls may be delivered to the MAH Pilot Directory Number at any time.