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A telecommunications system (18) has a capacity management system (100) which provides a user equipment unit agent (150) for each wireless user equipment unit (20) with which a connection is to be established. The user equipment agent negotiates resources for the prospective connection to be establi

A telecommunications system (18) has a capacity management system (100) which provides a user equipment unit agent (150) for each wireless user equipment unit (20) with which a connection is to be established. The user equipment agent negotiates resources for the prospective connection to be established with its corresponding user equipment unit. In the negotiation, the user equipment agent determines a number of purchase units expendable by the user equipment unit for the negotiation, and issues a resource request to begin the negotiation. Each resource has a resource unit price at which a unit of the resource is sold. In response to the resource request issued by the user equipment agent, connection resources are allocated to the user equipment unit in accordance with what the number of purchase units expendable by the user equipment unit can afford. The resource unit price for the resources is dynamically adjusted, e.g., in accordance with load on the telecommunication system. The resources can include such capabilities as transmission power, spreading code, bit rate, and a number of handover legs (for diversity purposes).

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1. A telecommunications system for establishing a connection with a wireless user equipment unit, the telecommunications system comprising:a user equipment unit agent which determines a number of purchase units expendable by the user equipment unit and which uses a resource request to negotiate for

1. A telecommunications system for establishing a connection with a wireless user equipment unit, the telecommunications system comprising:a user equipment unit agent which determines a number of purchase units expendable by the user equipment unit and which uses a resource request to negotiate for connection resources to be utilized in the connection; a capacity management system comprising: a resource price list which includes a resource unit price for each of plural connection resources requested for the connection from the telecommunications system, the resource unit price for each of the plural connection resources being dynamically adjusted in accordance with load on the telecommunication system; a controller which responds to the resource request by allocating connection resources to the user equipment unit in accordance with what the number of purchase units expendable by the user equipment unit can afford.