Node, network and method for providing quality of service adjustments on a per-application basis

A mobile telecommunication network operable to provide data services to a mobile terminal serviced thereby, the mobile telecommunications network comprising:

• a first service node including a table comprising one or more keys and at least one record associated with each of the one or more keys having a value indicative of an application, each of the one or more records having a service marking stored therein;
• a base station subsystem operable to transmit data to the first service node and receive data from the first service node;
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• at least one base transceiver station operable to provide radio frequency links to the mobile device, the first service node operable to receive a first packet and determine an application associated therewith, the first service node operable to interrogate the table with a query value indicative of the application, a service marking being returned upon matching the query value with a first key value, the service marking maintained in a record associated with the first key value, the node operable to write the service marking into a field of the packet, the node operable to transmit the packet across the telecommunication network.