Patent ID: 7043225

Claim:
A method for brokering resources of a wireless communications network, comprising: providing a service interface allowing a user of a remote communications device to select one or more geographic regions for which the user desires wireless service coverage for the remote communications device; receiving at a centralized brokerage manager via the service interface a request from the user for a wireless service at a particular geographic region selected by the user via the service interface; selectively determining an availability of the wireless service for at least two service providers available at the selected geographic region based on the request; generating a first response to the request based on the availability of the wireless service at the selected geographic region, the first response including one or more terms for the wireless service including at least one option between the at least two service providers; communicating the first response to the remote communications device; and receiving a second response to the first response, the second response selecting at least one of the at least two service providers to provide the wireless service.