Differential billing for data usage in authorized and unlicensed frequency bands

摘要

The base station receives a charging policy indicating data usage rates for the authorized and unlicensed frequency bands. The base station selectively allocates one or more of the authorized or unlicensed frequency bands to the user equipment based on the data usage rate. The network billing system transmits a billing policy indicating data usage rates for the authorized and unlicensed frequency bands. The network billing system receives a message containing billing parameters for data usage by at least one of an authorized or unlicensed frequency band that is selectively assigned based on a billing policy.