Patent ID: 7274917

Claim:
A method for the management of roaming of mobile subscribers roaming between a home network and foreign networks, in which method the roaming behavior is based on the contents of control files saved in the mobile equipment of the subscribers, comprising: a) defining a list of preferred networks into a control file of the mobile equipment of a subscriber to be used in a priority order in a roaming situation, b) the mobile equipment roaming from one network to another, c) sending information about the roaming to a roaming management application, d) upon receipt of the information about the roaming from the mobile equipment, the roaming management application comparing a current roaming setting of the mobile equipment and a desired roaming behavior for the mobile equipment at application when the mobile equipment has roamed into the location, e) the roaming management application determining whether the list of preferred networks in the control file is updated in accordance with the desired roaming behavior for the mobile equipment when the mobile equipment is at the location, f) when the list of preferred networks in the control file is not updated in accordance with the desired roaming behavior for the mobile equipment when the mobile equipment is at the location, the roaming management application dynamically updating the list of preferred networks in the control file in accordance with the desired roaming behavior, and g) when the list of preferred networks in the control file is updated, the roaming management application determining whether the subscriber roamed into a preferred network in accordance with the desired roaming behavior for the location of the mobile equipment.