A terminal management device manages the sharing by at the least one
business entity of costs related to distributed terminal devices. In a
case that a new business entity, which uses the terminal devices and
provides services after the terminal devices have been distributed, the
terminal management device computes and totals the differences of shared
costs of each business entity, which will change in accordance with the
addition thereof. Thus, by managing the changes of a plurality of
business entities bearing the costs related to terminal devices, changes
in the shares of the costs thereof can be adjusted easily even in a case
that business entities using the terminal devices thereof and providing
services change after the terminal devices have been distributed to
subscribers. Therefore, the present invention facilitates the
participation of a new service business entity in the provision of
services using terminal devices subsequent to the terminal devices being
distributed.