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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1999
Walter Wesley Howe, Alpharetta, GA (US);
GTE Wireless Service Corporation, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Abstract
An improved telephone system is provided for handling a long distance call made by a mobile modem to a remote land-based terminal as a local call. A register in the system examines the number of the cellular telephone, and the location of the mobile, as represented by the identity of the serving switch. The register then instructs the system to connect the mobile modem to a hard-wired modem local to the visited switch . The modem designated is one of a pool of geographically dispersed modems connected to an alternative network such as the TCP/IP based Internet. The call is completed as a local call with data flowing from the mobile modem to the local hard-wired modem . From the hard-wired modem the data is then routed over the alternative network to the land-based terminal , which is also connected to the alternative network . Such an approach eliminates the long distances fee connected with the use of the public switched telephone network