Patent ID: 8606226

Claim:
A system for providing wireless communication to a device associated with a customer comprising: a base station in wireless communication with the device on a data channel; and a manager server connected to said base station and receiving selectively ads from an advertisement source and a service request for service from the device, said service including providing at least one of establishing a voice communication between the device associated with the customer and other devices and data access to a distributed computer network; said manager server being adapted to present advertisements to said device and to generate an ad credit to the customer based on the ads presented to the customer on the device; said manager being further adapted to (1) sense said service request for service, (2) in response to said service request, determine if the customer has sufficient ad credit, (3) based on said determination, if the customer has insufficient ad credits, sending to the device a message to the customer indicating said determination; and (4) deny service to the customer if the customer has insufficient ad credits.