Patent ID: 7805141

Claim:
A method comprising: providing local cordless service to a mobile station operating within a subscribed-to home neighborhood zone; billing said local cordless service within said subscribed-to home neighborhood zone at a fixed billing rate for unlimited airtime; handing off service from said local cordless service to a public cellular service when said mobile station moves outside said subscribed-to home neighborhood zone, wherein said public cellular service is billed at a non-fixed billing rate based on airtime; handing off service from said public cellular service to said local cordless service when said mobile station moves into a first subscribed-to visiting neighborhood zone wherein said fixed billing rate includes unlimited airtime within said first subscribed-to visiting neighborhood zone; and handing off service to a second subscribed-to visiting neighborhood zone when said mobile station is not in said first subscribed-to visiting neighborhood zone and said mobile station is not in said subscribed-to home neighborhood zone, wherein said second subscribed-to visiting neighborhood zone is billed at rate different than said fixed billing rate.