Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating resource utilization alerts through communication terminals

A communication system comprising:

• a core network that transmits an alert message to a communication terminal to trigger an alert therefrom in response to a cumulative utilization of communication system resources by the communication terminal exceeding a threshold value.

A computer program product for monitoring utilization of communication system resources, the computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code comprising:

• computer readable program code that is configured to determine cumulative utilization of communication system resources by a communication terminal;
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• computer readable program code that is configured to generate an alert through the communication terminal in response to the cumulative utilization reaching a threshold amount.