Dial-up Internet access service system with automatic billing mechanism

Due to the rapid growth of Internet, many Internet Service Providers(ISPs) spring up in Korea. The typical way of their dial-up Internet services is for user to subscribe an TSP and pay monthly flat fate. But the rate is relatively expensive to a large number of users with occasional access. Therefore they are unwilling to join Internet. This causes loss of users to ISPs and obstacle to Internet growth. Meanwhile, as Contents Providers(CPs) provide much better services, they tend to become commercial sites and, moreover, want to have their own billing method. ISPs, therefore, have a need to provide appropriate billing policy for commercial CPs. In this paper, we describe dial-up Internet access service system with automatic billing mechanism which is implemented to cope with the above trend, The system provides users with easy Internet access. It performs automatic billing mechanism based on call connection time and the data amount used. We expect, due to the system, ISPs will get lots of new users and cope with changes in billing of CPs appropriately.