Patent ID: 8611855

Claim:
A method for completing a mobile telephone call comprising: receiving, at a mobile switching center of a mobile telephone service provider, a mobile telephone call directed to a phantom mobile telephone number assigned to a business, the call being from a mobile telephone having a service subscription with the mobile telephone service provider; determining that the phantom telephone number is in a phantom telephone number database; responsive to the phantom mobile telephone number being in the phantom telephone number database, determining a landline telephone number associated with the phantom mobile telephone number; responsive to determining the landline telephone number associated with the phantom mobile telephone number, switching the received mobile telephone call directed to the phantom mobile telephone number to the landline telephone number associated with the phantom mobile telephone number; completing the mobile telephone call to the business; and responsive to the phantom mobile telephone number being in the phantom telephone number database, not debiting airtime minutes related to the mobile telephone call from the service subscription of the mobile telephone.