This paper focuses on the interactions between uplink admission and congestion control strategies in UTRA-W-CDMA. The proposed strategies are analysed in the framework of a representative multiservice scenario where conversational and interactive traffic are present and the presented solutions are compliant with 3GPP UTRA FDD specifications. Furthermore, the results consider a complete approach where all the radio resource management strategies are taken into account, including admission, congestion, short term RRM, handover and power control feasible solutions. Therefore, obtained results allow to devise a range of guidelines for the joint design of RRM algorithms.