Patent ID: 8891746

Claim:
A system for operating communications services of a communications service provider, said system comprising: a storage unit configured to store information associated with a customer of the communications service provider, at least a portion of the information including information associated with unlimited communications services provided by the communications service provider; a computing system in communication with said storage unit and being configured to: collect usage data of the user during a time period associated with the unlimited portion of the service plan; determine whether the usage data is indicative of the user using the communications services in violation of service terms and conditions associated with the unlimited portion of the service plan; perform an action in response to determining that the user is in violation of the terms and conditions; determine that cost value for calls placed to a telephone number during the time period by the user is a cost value that exceeds a threshold cost value; and in response to determining that the cost value to the telephone number called by the user exceeds the threshold cost value, remove the telephone number from a calling feature.