Patent ID: 8850470

Claim:
A base station device, comprising: a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising: initiating communication with a wireless device in response to a first determination that the wireless device is within a defined range; authenticating the wireless device with regard to the base station device based on subscription information associated with an operator identity and received from the wireless device, comprising reinitiating the authenticating of the wireless device with regard to the base station device according to a predetermined number of attempts in response to an unsuccessful attempt to authenticate the wireless device with regard to the base station device; in response to a second determination that the wireless device is successfully authenticated with regard to the base station device, authenticating the wireless device with regard to multimedia content based on other subscription information associated with a multimedia service account of the operator identity and a level of service defined in the multimedia service account; controlling distribution, to the wireless device, of the multimedia content based on the level of service defined in the multimedia service account, wherein the level of service is received from the wireless device and enables a third determination of at least a portion of the multimedia content to be rendered by the wireless device; and forwarding a decrypted version of the multimedia content, which is received from another device, to the wireless device in accordance with an encryption key associated with the other subscription information.