Patent ID: 7613471
Filing Date: 2009-11-03
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A telecommunications system comprising: a messaging-enabled communications device configured for a roaming-free connection to a mobile telephone services provider; a distributor, the distributor providing the communications device to a user; and a gateway, the gateway being for placing a telephone call to a destination telephone having a telephone number indicated by a message received from the communications device and also for placing a telephone call to the user though the service provider to patch the user to the destination telephone without incurring roaming charges; wherein the communication device is registered with the gateway before it is provided to the user and wherein the communication device activates a fake ring-tone when the message is being received by the gateway so that the user is made to feel that the destination telephone is being dialed in a conventional way; and wherein the communication device activates the fake ring-tone during a sequence in which the gateway hangs up on the communication device, calls back the communication device and then places the call to the destination telephone.