Abstract: Landline facilities are linked to a wireless mobile network for calling party pays calls between wireless subscriber units. The wireless mobile network is provided with the ability to recognize that a called wireless station is a calling party pays subscriber. The wireless mobile network routes the call to a landline facility to undertake interactive communication with the calling station to determine whether the caller will agree to pay for both the called party's air-time charges and the calling party's air-time charges for the call. The landline facility can then access a database to determine if the carrier with which it is associated can provide billing functions with respect to the calling subscriber and, if so, activate such functions for a carrier entity so identified.

Abstract: A system for remote notification of new voicemail messages stored in a landline-based voicemail system to a wireless mobile telephone. A telephone switching system forwards an incoming call for a subscriber's landline telephone or number to a voicemail system for recording voicemail messages. A message platform monitors the generation of a notification request by the voicemail system that typically causes the telephone switching system to illuminate a message waiting indicator on the subscriber's telephone or provide an audible message waiting indication over the subscriber's line. The message platform, in response to detecting the notification request, outputs an e-mail message via a packet switched network (such as the Internet) to a wireless network in communication with a wireless mobile telephone used by the voicemail subscriber.

Abstract: A dual-mode wireless communication system, having a AMPS-based wireless system and a CDMA-based wireless communication system is configured for transmitting digital wireless telephone signals by selectively transmitting a sync channel into a selected propagation region at a power level that is undetectable by digital telephones located within the selected propagation region. The transmission of the sync channel signal at the undetectable power level causes the dual-mode digital telephone to search for the alternative AMPS-based analog system, limiting access by the dual-mode digital telephones. Hence, the dual-mode wireless communication system can limit access to the digital communication system, for example, to prevent the occurrence of hard handoff with an adjacent analog system, or to reduce usage in a congested sector.