Abstract:
A system and method for enabling a user to purchase an instant mobile telephony services plan makes use of an application on a mobile telephony device. The user can purchase an instant mobile plan via a third party merchant. Once purchased, the user can also make use of the application on the user's mobile telephony device to obtain the purchased telephony services. The communications services provider that provides services to the user under an instant mobile plan may be different from the communications services provider that is tied to the user's mobile telephony device.
Abstract:
A system and method for enabling a user to purchase an instant mobile telephony services plan makes use of an application on a mobile telephony device. The user can purchase an instant mobile plan via a third party merchant. Once purchased, the user can also make use of the application on the user's mobile telephony device to obtain the purchased telephony services. The communications services provider that provides services to the user under an instant mobile plan may be different from the communications services provider that is tied to the user's mobile telephony device.
Abstract:
A method of providing communications services to a user of a mobile telephony device, the method comprising displaying telephony communications services plan options offered by a first telephony service provider on a user's mobile telephony device that receives telephony service from a second telephony service provider; communicating the user's telephony communications services plan selection to a third party merchant via the user's mobile telephony device; and effecting the purchase of the selected telephony communications services plan from the third party merchant using the user's mobile telephony device such that the user can obtain telephony services from both the first telephony service provider and the second telephony service provider, wherein the user has a pre-existing account with the third party merchant, wherein the effecting step comprises facilitating communications between the third party merchant and the user such that the user can purchase the selected telephony communications services plan via the user's pre-existing account, wherein the user's mobile telephony device receives, from the third party merchant, information about the user's purchase of a telephony communications services plan after the purchase has been made, and wherein the user's mobile telephony device sends at least some of the information received from the third party merchant to the first telephony service provider so that the first telephony service provider can verify the user's purchase of a telephony communications services plan.
Abstract:
A system and method for enabling a user to purchase an instant mobile telephony services plan makes use of an application on a mobile telephony device. The user can purchase an instant mobile plan via a third party merchant. Once purchased, the user can also make use of the application on the user's mobile telephony device to obtain the purchased telephony services. The communications services provider that provides services to the user under an instant mobile plan may be different from the communications services provider that is tied to the user's mobile telephony device.
Abstract:
An award system associated with a telephony communications system analyzes one or more users' telephony activity to determine if the telephony activity satisfies certain predetermined award rules. If a single user's telephony activity satisfies one or more award rules, the system makes an award to the user. The making of an award can include posting the award on a social networking site with which the user is associated. The analysis can also include collecting information about a predetermined type of telephony activity for multiple users of the system, and determining which of the multiple users has experienced the most of the predetermined type of telephony activity. An award is then granted to those users who experienced the most of the predetermined type of telephony activity.
Abstract:
A system and method for enabling a user to purchase an instant mobile telephony services plan makes use of an application on a mobile telephony device. The user can purchase an instant mobile plan via a third party merchant. Once purchased, the user can also make use of the application on the user's mobile telephony device to obtain the purchased telephony services. The communications services provider that provides services to the user under an instant mobile plan may be different from the communications services provider that is tied to the user's mobile telephony device.