Identifying programming information of a telecommunications provider

A system, comprising:

• an interface for (i) receiving a geographical identifier and one or more responses to requests for information from a user, which responses include one or more non-geographic parameters that correspond to the user's telecommunications provider and do not include the user's telecommunications provider, and for (ii) sending one or more answers to the requests, which include a description of a design of one or more physical items belonging to or originating from the telecommunications provider, wherein the one or more physical items include a service bill;
• a selection module for identifying one or more telecommunications providers within a geographic area associated with the geographic area identifier and for identifying a particular telecommunications provider of the one or more telecommunications providers based on the one or more responses from the user that includes a name of a television program currently being broadcast to the user on a particular television channel;
• means for transmitting carrier-specific programming information from among multiple sets of programming information to the user, wherein the carrier-specific programming information corresponds to programming available to the geographic area from the identified particular telecommunications provider;
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• a memory storing data relating to non-geographic parameters for a plurality of telecommunications providers including the one or more telecommunications providers within the geographic area,
• wherein the parameters are related to an item selected from a group consisting of content provider bill design, content provider invoice totals, content provider package price, current broadcasting content that identifies a name of a television program currently being broadcast on a particular television channel, and physical attributes of telecommunications signal receiving equipment.

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

• transmitting to a remote electronic device a request for a user of the remote electronic device to identify a name of a television program from a plurality of names of television programs provided to the user, which identified television program corresponds to a television program being broadcast at that time to the user on an identified television channel;
• receiving from the remote electronic device an answer to the request, which answer identifies the name of the television program being broadcast at that time on the identified television channel and does not include the user's telecommunications provider, but that does include a description of a design of one or more physical items belonging to or originating from the telecommunications carrier, wherein the one or more physical items include a service bill;
• based on the answer, identifying the user's telecommunications provider and selecting carrier-specific programming information from among multiple sets of programming information based on the identification;
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• transmitting an electronic program guide to the remote electronic device for presentation to the user, which electronic program guide includes content that corresponds to the selected carrier-specific programming information.