Patent ID: 8126474

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a determining unit configured: to determine whether an override feature defined by an operator is activated in a message to a network from a user equipment, the override feature being indicative of which of a maximum bitrate requested by the user equipment and a maximum bitrate from a register in the network is to be used in a quality of service negotiation for a communication session, in response to determining that the override feature is not activated, to carry out the quality of service negotiation using the maximum bitrate requested by the user equipment, where the maximum bitrate requested by the user equipment is allocated to the user equipment for the communication session, and in response to determining that the override feature is activated, to carry out the quality of service negotiation using the maximum bitrate from a register in the network, where the maximum bitrate from the register is allocated to the user equipment for the communication session, wherein the maximum bitrate from the register is greater than the maximum bitrate requested by the user equipment, wherein the apparatus is further configured to allow the operator to only activate the override feature if the maximum bitrate requested by the user equipment is less than an operator configured threshold.