Patent ID: 7133670

Claim:
A method of providing telecommunication services to a mobile-subscriber terminal roaming in a wireless telecommunication network, the method comprising: the mobile subscriber terminal roaming into a private-wireless network from a public-wireless network to which it subscribes, wherein the private-wireless network is a wireless local area network, and wherein the private-wireless network and the public-wireless network use different communications formats for communications with the mobile subscriber terminal; registering the mobile subscriber terminal on the wireless local area network; retrieving roaming-agreement information from a roaming-agreement database, wherein the roaming-agreement information includes a routing protocol; determining, based on the routing protocol, whether to route communications with the mobile subscriber terminal over the public-wireless network or over a transport network; determining roaming rules, from the roaming agreement information, for operating the mobile subscriber terminal in the private-wireless network; and the private wireless network providing to the mobile-subscriber terminal services in accordance with the roaming rules.