Methods and systems to provide adaptable billing for devices within a geographic zone

A method performed by a billing adaptor system to adjust a billing rate of a user device within a geographic area, wherein the method comprises:

• obtaining, by a monitoring application of the billing adaptor system, a location of the user device registered with a carrier network in association with a subscription account, wherein the subscription account comprises a home network subscription plan associated with a home network device registered with the carrier network, wherein the user device is registered with the carrier network under a data plan associated with the subscription account and separate from the home network subscription plan;
• determining, by the monitoring application, a location of the home network device;
• determining, by the monitoring application, a geographic zone around the home network device based on the user device, wherein the geographic zone is a physical area around the home network device;
• determining, by the monitoring application, whether the location of the user device is within the geographic zone around the home network device;
• and
• transmitting, by a billing application of the billing adaptor system, an instruction to the billing adaptor system in the carrier network to adapt the data plan associated with the user device to a reduced billing rate when the location of the user device is within the geographic zone around the home network device.

A system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• at least one non-transitory memory;
• a monitoring application of a billing adaptor system, stored in the at least one non-transitory memory, which when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to be configured to:
• determine a geographic zone around a first device based on a second device, wherein the second device and the first device are subscribed with a carrier network under a common subscription account;
• obtain a first location of the second device;
• when the first location of the second device is within the geographic zone, a billing application of the billing adaptor system, stored in the at least one non-transitory memory, which when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to be configured to transmit a first instruction to a billing system in the carrier network to adjust a data plan associated with the second device;
• after transmitting the first instruction, the monitoring application causes the at least one processor to be configured to determine that a second location of the second device, different from the first location of the second device, is external to the geographic zone;
• and
• when the second location of the second device is external to the geographic zone, the billing application causes the at least one processor to be configured to a second instruction to the billing system to adjust the data plan associated with the second device.