Current developments in technologies and markets stress the importance of exible and robust performance optimisation and congestion control. In intelligent networks, conges- tion control has traditionally taken a mainly technical view and focused on protecting individual nodes from harmful overloads. We take a profit oriented, network wide view and develop a congestion control mechanism to ensure profit maximisation under real time performance. Numerical studies in a simulator show that the proposed mechanism is robust and, in particular in overloaded states, provides a substantial improvement in comparison to conventional load control mechanisms.