Patent ID: 8644798

Claim:
A remote station apparatus, comprising: a transmit/receive subsystem configured to transmit/receive wireless signals to/from a wireless communications network; a calling control subsystem configured to: receive a request from a user to place a first call over the wireless communications network to a first telephone number; receive periodic updates to a list of approved telephone numbers; determine if said first telephone number is an approved telephone number based on the list of approved telephone numbers; prompt the user for authorization for personal billing when the first telephone number is not an approved telephone number, wherein the prompting occurs after receiving the request from the user to place the first call and before allowing or denying placement of the first call; set a flag when allowing the placement of the first call, the flag indicating to a server that the first call is a personal call and prompting the server to log the first call for billing purposes; and deny placement of the first call when the first telephone number is not an approved number and the user has not authorized personal billing for the first call.