Patent ID: 6947535

Claim:
A method for controlling service provision for customer terminals, used by customers for receiving services, in a telecommunications network including at least one server for offering services to the customers, and control means for controlling the provision of services to customers, the method comprising the steps of: continuously providing a service by transmitting information to the customer terminal; receiving information about service-specific payments in the control means from the customer terminal during delivery of the service; informing the control means of the current price of the service; maintaining at least one control parameter value is dependent at least on a difference of accumulated charges for the service and accumulated sum of service-specific payments, the service being unpaid for when the accumulated charges are larger than the accumulated sum of the service-specific payments; comparing the value of at least one of said at least one control parameter to a first threshold, the first threshold defining an amount of unpaid service that a customer receives; stopping the continuous provision of the service when the value of the control parameter has reached the first threshold; sending to the customer terminal a notification of a lost payment; and receiving a re-sent payment from the customer terminal.