Cellular telecommunications networks for temporarily associating unique connection numbers with terminals having token identification modules

A cellular telecommunications network for temporarily associating unique connection numbers with terminals having token identification modules, the network comprising:

• a location register for receiving a request to access the network from a terminal and, when the request is associated with a token identification module, wherein the token identification module is a module which is not permanently associated with a publicly known number, redirecting the request;
• a token register which receives said redirected request, obtains token connection identification data and transmits a signal indicating to the location register that the identity of the terminal has been recognized;
• and
• a network gateway component for establishing a communication session between the network and the terminal in accordance with the token connection identification data obtained from the token register;
• the network further comprising:
• a network storage database for storing a table of unique connection numbers;
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• a messaging parsing component for processing messages addressed to terminals having token identification modules, selecting a given connection number from the table of unique connection numbers, associating the selected number with the token register record for a given token identification module and redirecting the messages to the terminal having the given token identification module using the associated selected number,
• wherein a messaging parsing application is communicably coupled to the token register and causes the association of the selected number to the token identification module by instructing a purge of the location register record for the token identification module and injecting the selected number into the token register record during reconnection;
• and
• wherein the messaging parsing application further triggers a Packet Data Protocol (PDP) context upon confirmation of successful receipt of a given one of said redirected messages within the terminal, thereby instigating a data connection between the terminal and an originator of said redirected message.