Abstract: A telephone network arranged to give a telephone call placed to a called party's personal telephone number a particular call treatment that is selected as a function of the particular one of a plurality of predefined areas in which the called party is determined to be located, each of the plurality of predefined areas having at least two telephone stations with different telephone numbers located therein. The location of the called party is determined from the location of a two-way pager associated with the called party as detected by a paging antenna, e.g., tower, of a conventional two- way paging system that was not necessarily installed for use in completing telephone calls. For each personal telephone number, a table is stored associating a call treatment with one or more of the areas. The particular call treatment associated with an area is applied to calls to the personal telephone number when he is within that area.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a telephone billing management method for cellular telephones. The objective is to provide the user of a cellular telephone a cost accounting and management tool. The amounts of various classes of service used in the current billing period are downloaded and displayed at the user phone terminal, for instance on the wireless handset. Specifically, cumulative billing information for the present billing period is downloaded and displayed at the user's location during the call set up-period signalling period. The charge rate for the current call can also be downloaded. Once the call is stabilized, the duration (air time) and cost of the present call can be calculated and displayed in real time. Thus, for management purposes, the user has access to the provider's information on all charges up to the present call and the duration and cost of the present call can be calculated and displayed in real-time without further burden on the provider.