Patent ID: 8756051

Claim:
In a telecommunications network comprising a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) having an Intelligent Network (IN) Service Switching Function (SSF) and an IN Service Control Point (SCP) for controlling an Intelligent Network (IN) service, a method of providing a roaming subscriber messages in the roaming subscriber's home language, the method comprising: the MSC determining that the subscriber is inbound and roaming and upon detecting that an error announcement is to be played for the roaming subscriber, triggering the SSF with an error indication, wherein the MSC detects that the error announcement is to be played in response to a call establishment failure in the MSC; the SSF sending an IN Initial Detection Point (IDP) operation to the SCP, the IDP including an indication of the error and an indication of the language for the roaming subscriber; and the SCP using the indication of the language and the indication of the error to select the announcement from a language database to be played to the roaming subscriber.