Patent ID: 8725700

Claim:
A method of collecting and providing access to quality or service information associated with one or more wireless communications networks, mobile devices, or end users, comprising: using a computer, receiving mobile device location information of a plurality of mobile devices or end users that are associated with one or more wireless communications networks and quality or service information pertaining to wireless access characteristics for one or more mobile devices of said plurality of mobile devices or end users, and said quality or service information comprising coverage, availability or performance information of one or more wireless communications networks or said one or more mobile devices, storing, by action of said computer, said mobile device location information and said quality or service information in a memory or database; updating, by action of said computer, said mobile device location information stored in said memory or database when a mobile device of said plurality of mobile devices travels from one location to another; providing access to said quality or service information stored in said memory or database to one or more end users or one or more end user communication devices or one or more carriers or third parties that provide services to said one or more end users or one or more end user communication devices or one or more carriers, or to said one or more wireless communications networks; and wherein said wireless access characteristics comprise one or more of identified, perceived or measured: radio reception quality, network performance, quality of service, data rate, spectrum availability or suitability, capacity or bandwidth, availability or quality of coverage, availability or quality of capacity, availability or quality of one or more services or carriers, availability or quality of air interfaces, average use profile, average availability profile, statistics on outage or reliability or coverage or capacity carrying capabilities for one or more service providers, frequencies, radio frequency or quality of service or coverage or service map or addresses for one or more service providers, radio frequency or end-user application performance, and cost of service.