Patent ID: 8411832

Claim:
A method for routing calls in a peering grid, the peering grid comprising a plurality of customers interconnected with one or more of a plurality of peering partners via a peering infrastructure, comprising: receiving, at the peering infrastructure, call traffic from a customer; analyzing parameters of the call traffic to classify the call traffic as wireless or wire-line traffic; for wireless traffic, accepting the call traffic and transmitting the call traffic at a wireless rate to a peering partner via a connection to the peering partner, the call traffic destined for a phone number registered by the peering partner of the peering grid; for wire-line traffic, performing an action comprising (i) transmitting the call traffic back to the customer or (ii) accepting the call traffic and transmitting the call traffic at a wire-line rate; wherein the wire-line rate is different than the wireless rate, and wherein the wireless rate or the wire-line rate is charged to the customer; and wherein each of the receiving, analyzing, accepting, and transmitting steps are implemented by a processing device at the peering infrastructure, wherein the processing device accesses instructions from a memory device, the instructions, when executed, causing each of the receiving, analyzing, accepting, and transmitting steps to be implemented.