Notification of charging rate adjustments in regions of a mobile network to control bandwidth usage in the regions

A rate notification system, comprising:

• an interface system operable to receive bandwidth usage data for a mobile network, wherein the bandwidth usage data includes media type descriptions indicating the media used to consume bandwidth of the mobile network;
• and
• a control system operable to identify a region within the mobile network having a bandwidth usage that exceeds a threshold for at least one media type based on the bandwidth usage data, to identify a mobile device located in the region, to receive a contact list of an end user from the mobile device, to identify at least one contact of the end user of the mobile device from the contact list, and to identify an adjusted charging rate for communicating with the at least one contact using the at least one media type for a time period;
• the interface system further operable to provide the adjusted charging rate to the mobile device.