A method for adapting the data traffic of a communication between a user equipment and a communication network. The user equipment includes an entity for providing a service associated to the communication. The method includes determining actual operational status information of the service providing entity and creating an usage indicator based on said operational status information. Further the method includes the steps of sending the usage indicator to the communication network and adapting the data traffic of the communication in accordance with the usage indicator. A related user equipment provides the usage indicator to the communication network. A related traffic controller of a communication network adapts the data traffic of a communication between the user equipment and the communication network.