Patent ID: 8780799

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a computing device, a first request to establish a single bearer with a first user equipment associated with a long term evolution user (LTE) device, wherein the LTE device is a fixed wireless customer premises equipment (CPE) configured to provide access to an LTE network for a plurality of user equipment and the first request includes first parameters associated with the first user equipment; determining, by the computing device, that the LTE device does not have the single bearer established; providing, by the computing device, a new bearer request, with the first parameters, to a wireless network in order to establish the single bearer with the LTE device at a first data rate; receiving, by a computing device, a second request to establish another bearer with a second user equipment associated with the LTE device, where the second request includes second parameters associated with the second user equipment; determining, by the computing device, that the LTE device has the single bearer established for the first user equipment; and providing, by the computing device, a modify bearer request, with the second parameters, to the wireless network in order to modify the single bearer with the LTE device to a second data rate.