Patent ID: 8555349

Claim:
A method comprising: determining to obtain and/or process, at least in part, operator data that indicates at least one operator of a service associated with user equipment; determining to obtain and/or process, at least in part, user data that identifies at least one user of the user equipment for at least one gateway provider different from the at least one operator and different from the at least one user; and determining to send, to the at least one gateway provider, at least a first message that indicates the operator data and the user data for obtaining at least one service with an operator-specific interface, wherein determining to obtain and/or process the user data comprises: determining to send to the at least one gateway provider through the communications network at least one authentication message that indicates the operator data and local data; and receiving from the at least one gateway provider token data in response to the authentication message, wherein the token data indicates authorization to use at least one service at the gateway provider for a specified time, wherein the user data comprises the token data.