A method determines an operating mode for a first communications device to communicatively connect to a second communications device. The method includes transmitting, by a first communications device to a wireless services manager arrangement (WSMA), contact identification data associated with a second communications device. The method includes determining, by the WSMA, association data as a function of the contact identification data and a contact identification database. The method includes determining, by the WSMA, one of a plurality of operating modes for the first communications device as a function of the association data. The method includes communicatively connecting the first communications device with the second communications device utilizing the determined operating mode.