Architecture for managing prepaid wireless communications services

A system for alerting a prepaid subscriber when a recharge threshold associated with a prepaid wireless account is reached utilizing a wireless device associated with the prepaid wireless account, the system comprising:

• means for reporting a number of minutes used during a communications session utilizing the wireless device in a network;
• means for updating an account balance associated with the prepaid wireless account in a customer account database;
• means for determining whether the number of minutes used during the communications session causes the account balance to fall below the recharge threshold associated with the prepaid wireless account;
• and
• means for pushing an alert to the wireless device when the account balance falls below the recharge threshold at a frequency specified by the prepaid subscriber.

A method comprising:

• establishing a prepaid account associated with a wireless prepaid subscriber, the prepaid account including a recharge threshold associated with the prepaid account;
• receiving from the prepaid subscriber, at an application module on a prepaid server, a frequency of recharge alerts that occur once the recharge threshold has been crossed;
• and
• issuing recharge alerts from the application module to a wireless device associated with the prepaid account at the frequency specified by the prepaid subscriber.