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Abstract

Enhanced system operation is realized with a method, and apparatus for carrying out the method, which negotiates with a customer for a Quality-of-Service level that the customer gets in a connection for a price that the customer is willing to pay. The negotiation is repeated throughout the time the connection exists. In a cellular environment, the QoS is negotiated when a mobile unit initiates a call, at regular intervals during the call (when changes in traffic conditions call for a renegotiation), and when the mobile unit is handed off from one cell to another cell. To prepare for its end of the negotiations, the service provider collects information concerning the level at which its resources are being utilized and determines its ability to guarantee a particular QoS level. This information is continuously updated and combined with historical data to calculate price data.

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