| 摘要 |
<p>A method and system wherein telecommunication switches (4) route calls in accordance with economic incentives including least cost routing resulting from a bidding process between participating telecommunication carriers (2) administered by a bidding service provider through operation of a central processor referred to as a bidding moderator (1). The technology required to facilitate forward delivery transactions, in which a buyer and seller agree to terms of a transaction today but schedule actual delivery for a future time, would be helpful to end users, resellers and carriers. The moderator (1) can facilitate such transactions by processing requests for end users or resellers (as buyers) for telecommunications services to be delivered by carriers (2) in the future. In order to provide the moderator (1) with sufficient information to process a request, the buyer enters the information describing the request on a software-derived template and transmits such information to the moderator (1).</p> |
