Systems and methods for terminating telephony communications to mobile telephony devices

摘要

Systems and methods for terminating telephony communications to a mobile telephony device that is roaming outside of its native service area make use of a mobile roaming termination service. The mobile roaming termination service causes the native mobile telephony service provider that provides service to the mobile telephony device to forward incoming telephony communications directed the native telephone number of the mobile telephony device to a forwarding access number. The mobile roaming termination service receives telephony communications directed to the forwarding access number, and then terminates the telephony communication to the mobile telephony device via any one of multiple different methods.

主权项

1. A method of terminating a telephony communication to a telephony device, the telephony device being assigned a native telephone number and being associated with a native telephony service provider, the method comprising:
causing the native telephony service provider to implement call forwarding instructions that result in the native telephony service provider forwarding incoming telephony communications directed to the native telephone number to a forwarding access number assigned to the telephony device; receiving an incoming telephony communication that has been forwarded to the forwarding access number; obtaining a local access number that has been assigned to the telephony device by a non-native telephony service provider; and terminating the incoming telephony communication to the local access number.