Digital content billing via multiple channels

A method of operating a mobile device digital content server system configured to provide digital content to mobile operator users in a plurality of geographic regions and to enable payment for the digital content via a plurality of billing channels, the method comprising:

• receiving from a content provider an input of a digital content item;
• receiving from the content provider an input of a home geographic region for the digital content item;
• sending to the content provider a list of suggested prices that are each permissible in each billing channel of a plurality of billing channels for the home geographic region, wherein one or more billing channels for the home geographic region utilize quantum pricing and one or more billing channels for the home geographic region utilize continuum pricing;
• receiving from the content provider an input of a selected price for the digital content item;
• if the selected price for the digital content item is from the list of suggested prices, then enabling billing for the content item via each of the billing channels of the plurality of billing channels for the home geographic region;
• and
• if the selected price for the digital content item is not from the list of suggested prices, then enabling billing for the content item via a first subset of billing channels of the plurality of billing channels of the home geographic region for which the selected price is permissible, while not enabling billing via a second subset of billing channels of the plurality of billing channels of the home geographic region for which the selected price is not permissible.

A digital content server system configured to provide digital content to mobile operator users in a plurality of geographic regions and to enable payment for the digital content via a plurality of billing channels, the digital content server system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• memory comprising instructions executable by the processor to:
• receive from a content provider an input of a digital content item;
• receive from the content provider an input of a home geographic region for the digital content item;
• send to the content provider a list of suggested prices that are each permissible in each billing channel of a plurality of billing channels for the home geographic region, wherein the plurality of billing channels for the home geographic region comprise two or more billing channels with quantum pricing and one or more billing channels with continuum pricing;
• receive from the content provider an input of a selected price for the digital content item in the home geographic region;
• if the selected price for the digital content item is from the list of suggested prices, then enable billing for the content item via each of the billing channels of the plurality of billing channels for the home geographic region;
• if the selected price for the digital content item is not from the list of suggested prices, then enable billing for the content item via a first subset of billing channels of the plurality of billing channels of the home geographic region for which the selected price is permissible, while not enabling billing for the content item via a second subset of billing channels for which the selected price is not permissible;
• send to the content provider suggested prices for a plurality of geographic regions other the home geographic region;
• and
• receive from the content provider an input of a selected price for the digital content item for each geographic region other than the home geographic region.