Patent ID: 8014754

Claim:
A method for location-dependent billing for a service being available to a user with a mobile terminal having an identification module, wherein, via a wireless interface of the identification module, a local communication connection is set up to a fixably installed external location tag including a billing rate code with a corresponding wireless interface, the method comprising: accessing the external location tag and transmitting the billing rate code from the external location tag to the mobile terminal; forwarding the billing rate code from the mobile terminal to a central unit of a mobile communication network, in which the mobile terminal is logged; determining a geographic location identification of the external location tag by evaluation of said billing rate code of the external location tag at the central unit; and selecting a billing rate for billing for the service available to the user based on the billing rate code of the external location tag at the central unit; and decrypting the billing rate code of the external location tag by the central unit based on an electronic key stored in the central unit.