Patent ID: 8213934

Claim:
A method for registering a wireless terminal with a home agent, comprising: receiving identifying indicia associated with a subscriber from the wireless terminal when the wireless terminal requests access to a network; providing the identifying indicia to an authentication server; receiving, at a base station, a profile associated with the subscriber, wherein there are a plurality of home agents to which registration information from the wireless terminal could be routed, wherein the plurality of home agents are associated with different mobile virtual network operators, wherein the profile comprises a hostname of a home agent that is assigned to a mobile virtual network operator associated with the subscriber, and wherein the profile is received from the authentication server; providing a resolution request with respect to the hostname from the base station to a domain name server; and routing the registration information from the wireless terminal to an identified home agent, wherein routing registration information comprises receiving a registration request at the base station and transmitting the registration request from the base station to the identified home agent.