摘要 |
A system for enabling competitive bidding for provision of telecommunication s services provides an interface for initiating communications sessions, a communications request queue, a management application for managing the communications request queue, and a communications service provider interfac e for providing the communications service providers with selective access to communications request messages received through the session initiation interface. The communications service providers are permitted to post rates for respective communications services in a rates database. The rates are us ed to select a least cost communications service provider for each communicatio ns request message received. Scheduled communications request messages are displayed for any communications request message that they are qualified to serve.
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