A communication apparatus that determines between apparatuses whether a service is executable before a wireless LAN connection is established and that establishes the wireless LAN connection only when the service is executable includes a determination unit that determines, if the communication apparatus and a communication partner apparatus overlap each other in terms of their roles as a requester when performing a handover, whether to transmit a response message in response to a request message received from the communication partner apparatus, and a transmission unit that transmits, if the determination unit determines to transmit the response message, a response message rejecting the connection using a second communication method to the communication partner apparatus using a first communication unit that performs wireless communication using a first communication method, regardless of whether the connection using the second communication method is executable.