Patent ID: 8254917

Claim:
A method for managing delivery of communications to at least one user of a mobile communications device, comprising: determining a communications network being used by a user; determining whether the communications network being used by the user is a home communications network or a roaming network; varying delivery of communications to the user based on the determination of whether the communications network being used by the user is a home communications network or a roaming network; and using a billing system for billing advertisers for delivery of communications to the user at different rates depending on the communications network being used by the user when receiving the communications, wherein said billing system is coupled to a communications management system, and receives the data about the communications network being used by the user, said billing system being arranged to bill advertisers at a subsidized rate for a communication delivered to a user using their home communications network and at a non-subsidized or higher rate when the user is roaming using a roaming network.