Patent ID: 8885635

Claim:
A wireless local area network (WLAN) access point configured for facilitating IP-based communications with a telecommunications system, the access point comprising: an antenna; a WLAN radio connected to the antenna and configured to provide WLAN connectivity; a network connection component configured to communicate with an IP-based network and connected to transmit and receive data received from WLAN radio; a telephone connector component configured to accept a wired connection with a landline telephone; an identification module socket configured to accept an identification module, wherein the identification module includes a tamper-resistant memory, and wherein the tamper-resistant memory has stored therein a subscriber identifier, and wherein the subscriber identifier is neither a Medium Access Control (MAC) address nor an electronic serial number (ESN); at least one detection component connected to the telephone connector component and configured to detect if an identification module is present in the identification module socket and if a landline telephone is connected to the telephone connector component; and a connection manager configured to selectively provision telecommunications services between the telephone connector component and the IP-based network in response to the detection component detecting that the identification module socket contains an identification module and that the telephone connector component is connected to a landline telephone, wherein the telecommunications services are not provided if the detection component does not detect an identification module in the identification module socket, and does not detect a landline telephone connected to the telephone connector component, wherein provisioning comprises: registering with a cellular telephone carrier network, providing user-specific information to the cellular telephone carrier network, wherein at least some of the user-specific information is provided through out-of-band communications, and receiving a resource allocation from the cellular telephone carrier network.