Patent ID: 8515925

Claim:
A method for providing a clearinghouse for communications networks, comprising: providing one or more computers which interface with a database, the database including performance, quality of service, or perceived communications service quality or value information, experienced or desired, for one or more mobile or fixed devices or end users, for one or more geographic locations of said one or more mobile or fixed devices, or end users, and one or more of records pertaining to one or more telecommunications carriers which identify infrastructure type and/or location information for one or more locations, and public records which include, for a plurality of geographic locations, one or more of: addresses, maps, location coordinates, or mapping information for said geographic locations, zoning information for said geographic locations, local ordinances for said geographic locations, contact information for government officials for said geographic locations, and information about one or more carriers serving said geographic locations; updating in said database either automatically or manually, using one or more electronic interfaces to said one or more computers, performance, quality of service, or perceived communications service quality or value information, experienced or desired, obtained for one or more mobile or fixed devices that are located in one of said one or more geographic locations; permitting at least one of said one or more telecommunications carriers or one or more end users of said one or more telecommunications carriers, or one or more parties which are not telecommunications carriers or end users to review, catalog, store, view, use, or sort said performance, quality of service, or perceived communications service quality or value information, experienced or desired, in said database; obtaining said performance or quality of service or perceived communications service quality or value information, experienced or desired, using one or more applications operable with said one or more mobile or fixed devices or said one or more computers; and providing said performance or quality of service or perceived communications service quality or value information, experienced or desired, to said one or more electronic interfaces using one or more applications operable with said one or more mobile or fixed devices or said one or more computers, wherein said performance or quality of service information or perceived communications service quality or value information includes information from one or more bands, one or more carriers, one or more mobile or fixed devices, or one or more end users from one or more bands or carriers.