Network communication and cost awareness techniques are described. In one or more implementations, functionality is exposed through one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) that is accessible to a plurality of applications of the computing device to perform network communication. Data is returned to one or more of the plurality of applications regarding a cost network used to perform the network communication.

A radio communication control device accepts a call-up from a radio communication terminal and includes a unit configured to detect the degree of jamming in a cell, a unit configured to confirm the intention of a user of a terminal concerned as to whether the call-up is continued regardless of addition of an extra to the user's telephone call charge when the call-up has been made from a radio communication terminal in the cell concerned in a specific jammed state, a unit configured to block the call-up concerned in accordance with the confirmed intention of the user of the terminal concerned and a unit configured to change charge setting so as to add an extra to the user's telephone call charge when the call-up has not been blocked in the specific jammed state.

One or more embodiments of the invention are directed to a system and method for instantaneously deploying packetized alert data in a one to many configuration or a many to many configuration where the data to be received by each recipient can be customized in a way that leaves a publisher with optimum control over the content or revenue generated from each deployment.

Embodiments are disclosed that provision a cloud-based service together with a dedicated network connection to provision a cloud-based service element. In response to the request both the cloud-based service element and a dedicated network connection are provisioned. Provisioning the cloud-based service element together with the dedicated network connection enables the cloud-based service element to utilize the dedicated network connection.

One or more embodiments of the invention are directed to a system and method for instantaneously deploying packetized alert data in a one to many configuration or a many to many configuration where the data to be received by each recipient can be customized in a way that leaves a publisher with optimum control over the content or revenue generated from each deployment.

Cost aware routing in a network topology to reduce costs within an egress-based pricing model. A method includes receiving telemetry data from one or more of a network device or a compute device within a cloud computing network, wherein the telemetry data is associated with a customer of the cloud computing network. The method includes retrieving an egress-based pricing scheme associated with a provider of the cloud computing network and provisioning one or more of the network device or the compute device to optimize routing decisions for the customer to reduce a predicted data egress charge for the customer.

A system and method that facilitates mobile device selection among available qualities of service is described herein. A mobile device presents a user interface to enable selection of change to a current quality of service on the mobile device. The user interface further enables selection of one or more parameters associated with the selected change to the current quality of service. In response to the selection, the mobile device transmits to the telecommunications network the selected change in quality of service. The mobile device then receives the selected change in quality of service if the telecommunications network is able to accommodate the selected change.

In order to edit, in a transmission-efficient manner, multimedia news before sending or receiving such news, the existing user data volume (VOL) of a piece of multimedia news (MM) is determined prior to, during, and after putting together such piece of multimedia news (MM). At least one application reducing the original user data volume (VOL) of such piece of multimedia news (MM) is supplied and run in case a predefined user data volume threshold (SGx) or an upper price limit (SPx) is exceeded.

In some examples, a cloud-services management tool for managing cloud services of an entity includes a processor and a storage device communicatively coupled to the processor. The storage device stores computer-executable instructions, which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to cause, via a display device, display of a user interface including one or more lists of available technology resources based on a user of the entity, receive, via a network interface, a user selection including at least one technology resource from the one or more lists of available technology resources, determine the at least one technology resource is provided by at least one cloud-service provider of a list of cloud-service providers, the list of cloud-service providers a list of cloud-service providers authorized by the entity, and manage the at least one technology resource provided by the at least one cloud-service provider based on the user selection.