Patent ID: 8538379

Claim:
A method for operating communications services, said method comprising: providing a service plan inclusive of at least a portion of the communications services being unlimited for a user; collecting, by a computing system, usage data of the user during a time period associated with the unlimited portion of the service plan; determining, by the computing system, whether the usage data is indicative of the user using the telecommunications services in violation of service terms and conditions associated with the unlimited portion of the service plan; performing, by the computing system, an action in response to determining that the user is in violation of the terms and conditions; determining that cost value for a communications service provider to provide 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, removing the telephone number from a calling feature.