Patent ID: 8175966

Claim:
A system for purchasing and activating telecommunication service plans from a user preferred telecommunication services provider, the system comprising: a server in communication with one of a plurality of clients over a network, wherein the server performs a method stored in a storage medium and executed by one or more processors comprising: receiving a selection of at least one telecommunication services provider and telecommunication services associated with the selected at least one telecommunication service provider from a buyer; comparing credit information associated with the buyer to credit indicators associated with the selected at least one telecommunication services provider; determining that the buyer does not meet credit requirements of the selected at least one telecommunication services provider; identifying one or more alternative telecommunication service providers, wherein the one or more alternate telecommunication service providers offer the selected telecommunication services associated with the selected at least one telecommunication services provider; ranking the identified one or more alternate providers of telecommunication services based on alternate provider credit indicators for each of the identified one or more alternative telecommunication services provider; comparing the credit information associated with the buyer to the alternate provider credit indicators associated with each of the identified one or more alternative providers of telecommunication services; and selecting at least one of the identified one or more alternative providers of telecommunications services from which the buyer may purchase the selected telecommunication services in response to determining that the buyer does not meet the credit requirement of the selected telecommunication services provider; wherein the telecommunication services provider offers a service plan with one or more features and receiving a request from the buyer related to at least one of the features, and wherein the selection of at least one of the identified one or more alternative providers of telecommunication services is made in response to comparing the requested at least one of the features of the service plan to the features of alternative service plans associated with at least one of the identified one or more alternatives providers of telecommunication services.