Patent ID: 7076038

Claim:
A method operable in a computer system for automatically enabling a long-distance call on a land-line public telephone switched network and debiting a wireless subscriber's account an amount for a long-distance call, wherein the wireless subscriber's account is not a prepaid account, comprising the steps of: providing a predetermined telephone number, wherein the predetermined telephone number is the telephone number of the wireless subscriber to whose account the telephone call is to be debited; answering the call at the predetermined number; receiving a password entered by a user; comparing the entered password to a stored password and, if the stored password matches the entered password, enabling further use of the method by the user; accepting a long-distance telephone number to be called; initiating a call on the land-line public telephone switched network to a receiving instrument at the long-distance telephone number to be called; and debiting the wireless subscriber's account an amount for the call.