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OwnerChristopher E. Caldwell, Janne P. Linkola +1inventors
InventorsChristopher E. Caldwell, Janne P. Linkola, Omar Hassan
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A service availability and pricing indication facility provides information about service options to a subscriber of mobile telecommunications services including IP-based services and non-IP-based services. The facility, which may be implemented in one or more components of a telecommunications service provider system, receives a notification including information based, at least partially, on a current location of the subscriber's mobile device. The facility uses this information to determine availability of an access point that allows for the mobile device to access IP-based services from the current location. If it is determined that at least one access point is available, the facility determines pricing associated with the subscriber utilizing the access point to conduct a communication using the mobile device and then provides information to the mobile device that allows the mobile device to present an indication of the availability of the access point and/or an indication of the pricing determination.
A method of providing information about the pricing of services to a subscriber of mobile communications services, wherein the mobile communications services include IP-based services and non-IP-based services and are implemented, at least in part, via a service provider network, the method comprising:
A method of providing information about the availability of service in a mobile device to a subscriber, wherein the mobile device receives IP-based and non-IP-based mobile communications services from a service provider network, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.