Patent ID: 8792856

Claim:
A method comprising: enrolling a subscriber in a multi-tiered pricing plan, selected from a set of a plurality of multi-tiered pricing plans, for telecommunication services associated with a subscriber device; billing to the subscriber, for a first billing cycle, a fixed plan fee associated with the selected multi-tiered pricing plan, wherein the fixed plan fee differs from other fixed plan fees associated with other ones of the plurality of multi-tiered pricing plans, wherein the fixed plan fees and corresponding usage fees, associated with the multi-tiered pricing plans, have an inverse monetary relationship; tracking, for the first billing cycle, first cumulative usage of the telecommunication service; determining, based on the first cumulative usage, a first corresponding tier of the selected multi-tiered pricing plan; billing, based on the first corresponding tier, a first usage fee for the first billing cycle; billing to the subscriber, for a second billing cycle, the fixed plan fee associated with the selected multi-tiered pricing plan; tracking, for the second billing cycle, second cumulative usage of the telecommunication service; determining, based on the second cumulative usage, a second corresponding tier of the selected multi-tiered pricing plan; and billing, based on the second corresponding tier, a second usage fee for the second billing cycle, wherein first usage fee differs from the second usage fee.