Patent ID: 8725129

Claim:
A method of providing telecommunication service in a wireless communication network, comprising: providing a plurality of service levels, each of the plurality of service levels corresponding to a different quality level of communication between a wireless mobile station and a base station of the wireless communication network, and each of the plurality of service levels also corresponds to a different price in an overall pricing structure; providing an option for a customer to select, at the wireless mobile station, one of the plurality of service levels for use with the wireless mobile station; storing the selected service level in a customer record associated with the wireless mobile station, the customer record being maintained in a customer record database; and configuring the customer record to bill the customer a predetermined price level for the selected service level; each quality level of communication employed by the wireless mobile station being a quality level of an audio signal sent or received by the wireless mobile station, and the audio signal quality level corresponds to at least one of a minimum guaranteed bandwidth used by the wireless mobile station and a dynamic range of the incoming audio signal.