Patent ID: 7224975

Claim:
A system for setting up a telecommunication connection between mobile terminal equipment of a calling subscriber who subscribes to a first teleoperator within a telecommunications network and mobile terminal equipment of a called subscriber who subscribes to a second teleoperator within said telecommunication network, said first and second teleoperators being different, said system comprising: a home location register of the calling subscriber; a home location register of the called subscriber; a visited mobile switching center serving the calling subscriber; a mobile switching center; and a communication server operable for route optimization of the telecommunication connection between said calling subscriber and said called subscriber to be set up, the mobile terminal equipment of the calling subscriber comprising means for transmitting a call set-up request to the visited mobile switching center, said communication server comprising means for determining a current location of the mobile terminal equipment of the calling subscriber in the telecommunication network, said communication server comprising means for determining in said communication server a location of the mobile terminal equipment of the called subscriber in the telecommunications network, said communication server comprising means for determining an optimized route for the telecommunication connection to be set up between the calling subscriber mobile terminal equipment and the called subscriber mobile terminal equipment based on call pricing data and network configuration data, and said locations of the mobile terminal equipment of the calling subscriber and the called subscriber, said communication server comprising means for returning to the visited mobile switching center information identifying the determined optimized route; wherein the call pricing data accounts for costs of calls that are set up and routed in an area of a mobile switching center of another telecommunication network; and wherein said visited mobile switching center includes means for setting up a telecommunication connection from the visited mobile switching center to the mobile switching center utilizing the determined optimized route returned from said communication server.