Patent ID: 8611891

Claim:
A mobile station for providing a communications link for a machine-to-machine (M2M) application, the mobile station comprising: mobile equipment comprising: a microprocessor module operative to control operation of telemetry of the mobile station based on local sensor information and commands received via a cellular network; a transceiver, operatively coupled to the microprocessor module, operative to process wireless signals incoming from and outgoing to the cellular network; and an antenna, associated with the transceiver, that conducts the wireless signals; a subscriber identity module (SIM); and a computer program loaded on the subscriber identity module, the computer program comprising a timer that increments time based on detecting transmissions of periodic messages containing location information, wherein the timer is operative to trigger one or more time-based actions responsive to the timer determining that a predetermined amount of time has passed by counting the transmissions of periodic messages and comparing the count to a threshold number that is greater than one, the threshold number equating to the predetermined amount of time according to transmission time interval, wherein the subscriber identity module comprises forbidden public land mobile network data stored in memory of the subscriber identity module and managed by the one or more time-based actions that the timer is operative to trigger.