Patent ID: 7158620

Claim:
In a telecommunications network system for distributing telephone calls from a wireless mobile telephone calling station to receiving stations on the network through a plurality of telecommunications on service providers, each of said service providers charging fees for said calls at different rates determined by the measures of different sets of predetermined calling conditions including the location of said wireless mobile calling station, a system for minimizing the fees paid by said calling station comprising: means for initiating a telephone call from said wireless mobile calling station to a selected receiving station; a global positioning system (GPS) for determining the geographic location of said wireless mobile calling station; means for determining the measures of said predetermined calling conditions; means for determining the optimum service provider charging the minimum fee for said telephone call based on said determined measures of said service provider's set of predetermined calling conditions including the location of said wireless mobile calling station; and means, responsive to Said means for determining said optimum service provider, for routing said initiated telephone call to said receiving station through said optimum service provider.