Patent ID: 8515417

Claim:
A method for providing communication services through a mobile telecommunications network, the method comprising: detecting, by a home base station, presence of mobile telephones within a coverage area of the home base station; storing, by the home base station, information identifying the mobile telephones, wherein the mobile telephones are in communication with the mobile telecommunications network; communicating, by the home base station, with a local telephone device; comparing, by the home base station, the mobile telephones to determine a mobile telephone of the mobile telephones having at least one of a strongest radio signal strength with the home base station, a history for remaining within the coverage area of the home base station, and a history of high quality connections to the home base station; and selecting, by the home base station, the mobile telephone from the mobile telephones for placing, via the mobile telecommunications network, an outgoing telephone call requested from the local telephone device, the mobile telephone selected from the mobile telephones determined to have at least one of the strongest radio signal strength with the home base station, the history for remaining within the coverage area of the home base station, or the history of high quality connections to the home base station.