Patent ID: 8594618

Claim:
A communications system, comprising: a first platform associated with a mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE); a second platform associated with a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) which is integrated with said first platform and which has a plurality of tenants associated therewith, wherein each tenant has a set of mobile communications devices associated with it which has a plurality of members, wherein each mobile communications device in the set has an instance of a client installed on it which maintains an open connection to a communications network provided by the MVNE, and wherein each client is equipped with a graphical user interface (GUI); and for each of the plurality of tenants, a group of offers selected by the tenant which are displayed on the GUI of each member of the set of mobile communications devices associated with that tenant; wherein the GUI of each device displays a gauge on the GUI which graphically depicts the amount of network connectivity remaining; further comprising: adjusting the gauge as network connectivity is consumed to depict the current amount of network connectivity remaining.