Method and system for location-dependent billing for services
A method for location-dependent billing for a services that are available to a mobile terminal, a local communication connection is set up to a fixably installed external location tag with a corresponding wireless interface between the fixably installed tag and the mobile terminal, the method including the steps of accessing the external location tag and transmitting a billing rate code from the external location tag to the mobile terminal, forwarding the billing rate code from the mobile terminal to a central unit of a mobile communication network, in which the mobile terminal is logged, determining a geographic location identification of the external location tag by evaluation of the billing rate code at the central unit, and selecting a billing rate for billing for the service available to the user based on the billing rate code at the central unit.
1. A method, comprising:
receiving data related to a network, by a tag at a location, via a wired network;
maintaining, in the tag, a network code;
transmitting the network code, from the tag to a subscriber identity module in a mobile device, via a short-range wireless channel, wherein the network code reaches the subscriber identity module;
billing for a product or a service at the location according to the network code;
receiving information, by the tag from the subscriber identity module in the mobile device, via the short-range wireless channel.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method comprises initializing the short-range wireless channel via a wireless interface of the mobile terminal.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the network code is transmitted according to a Near Field Communication (NFC) standard.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the short-range wireless channel is secured.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the tag comprises a security component operable to secure the network code.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the tag is operable to transmit according to more than one protocol.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the network code is associated with a location.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the network code comprises an encrypted portion.
9. The method of claim 8 , wherein a control unit of the network is operable to decrypt the encrypted portion of the network code.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method comprises causing payment of an access fee associated with the network code.