Patent ID: 8619545

Claim:
A wireless local area network (WLAN) access point configured for facilitating IP-based communications with a telecommunications system, the system 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 the WLAN radio; a telephone connector component configured to accept a wired connection with a landline telephone; a detection component connected to the telephone connector component and configured to detect whether a landline telephone is connected to the telephone connector component, wherein the detecting includes detecting a physical connection between the access point and a landline telephone line to permit telecommunication services to be provided through the landline telephone line to the landline-type telephone; and a connection manager configured to provision telecommunications services between the telephone connector component and the IP-based network in response to the detection component detecting that a landline telephone is physically connected to the telephone connector component, wherein provisioning comprises registering with a cellular telephone carrier network and receiving a resource allocation from the cellular telephone carrier network, and wherein telecommunications services are not provisioned between the telephone connector component and the IP-based network if the detection component detects an open circuit at the telephone connector component, corresponding to the landline telephone being not physically connected to the telephone connector component.