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A telephone network arranged to give a telephone call placed to a called party's personal telephone number a particular call treatment that is selected as a function of the particular one of a plurality of predefined areas in which the called party is determined to be located, each of the plurality

A telephone network arranged to give a telephone call placed to a called party's personal telephone number a particular call treatment that is selected as a function of the particular one of a plurality of predefined areas in which the called party is determined to be located, each of the plurality of predefined areas having at least two telephone stations with different telephone numbers located therein. The location of the called party is determined from the location of a two-way pager associated with the called party as detected by a paging antenna, e.g., tower, of a conventional two- way paging system that was not necessarily installed for use in completing telephone calls. For each personal telephone number, a table is stored associating a call treatment with one or more of the areas. The particular call treatment associated with an area is applied to calls to the personal telephone number when he is within that area. The associations of particular call treatments with respective ones of the areas is under control of the called party. The particular call treatments may include: (a) routing of the call to a particular wired telephone located within the area; (b) routing the call to a particular wired telephone outside of the area, (c) routing the call to a particular wireless telephone, (d) routing the call to a sequence of wired and/or wireless telephones within or outside of the area until the call is answered, and (e) routing the call to an automated answering platform. A default treatment may also be stored for handling calls that are placed to the called party when the called party is not within any area for which a call treatment is associated.

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A telephone network arranged to give a telephone call placed to a called party's personal telephone number a particular call treatment that is selected as a function of the particular one of a plurality of predefined areas in which the called party is determined to be located, each of the plurality

A telephone network arranged to give a telephone call placed to a called party's personal telephone number a particular call treatment that is selected as a function of the particular one of a plurality of predefined areas in which the called party is determined to be located, each of the plurality of predefined areas having at least two telephone stations with different telephone numbers located therein. The location of the called party is determined from the location of a two-way pager associated with the called party as detected by a paging antenna, e.g., tower, of a conventional two- way paging system that was not necessarily installed for use in completing telephone calls. For each personal telephone number, a table is stored associating a call treatment with one or more of the areas. The particular call treatment associated with an area is applied to calls to the personal telephone number when he is within that area. The associations of particular call treatments with respective ones of the areas is under control of the called party. The particular call treatments may include: (a) routing of the call to a particular wired telephone located within the area; (b) routing the call to a particular wired telephone outside of the area, (c) routing the call to a particular wireless telephone, (d) routing the call to a sequence of wired and/or wireless telephones within or outside of the area until the call is answered, and (e) routing the call to an automated answering platform. A default treatment may also be stored for handling calls that are placed to the called party when the called party is not within any area for which a call treatment is associated. local number and other secure information in a temporary storage area. 13. A method for managing the registration of a roaming phone as a local phone in a roaming area by a roaming service provider node comprising detecting a request message from the roaming phone containing identification information, determining a local connection number and a local number to re-register the roaming phone as a local phone, sending a response message to the roaming phone with the local number, receiving a return message from the roaming phone containing notification of successful re-registration of the roaming phone as a local cell-phone with the local number, marking the local connection number and local number as allocated, and sending the local connection number, the identification information, and an identifier of the roaming service provider node to the home location of the roaming phone. 14. A system for registering a roaming phone as a local phone in a visiting location comprising a plurality of roaming service provider nodes, and a global roaming data network coupled to each of the service provider nodes, wherein each of the service provider nodes includes a component for detecting a request message from the roaming phone containing roaming phone identification information, a component for determining a local connection number and a local number to re-register the roaming phone as a local phone, a component for sending a response message to the roaming phone with the local number, a component for receiving a return message from the roaming phone containing notification of successful re-registration of the roaming phone as a local cell-phone with the local number, a component for marking the local connection number and local number as allocated, and a component for sending, via the global roaming data network, the local connection number, the roaming phone identification information, and an identifier of the one of the service provider nodes serving the roaming phone in the visiting location to another of the service provider nodes in the home location of the roaming phone. 15. A roaming cell-phone capable of being registered as a local phone in a visiting location served by a visiting mobile switching center and a visiting service provider node, the roaming cell-phone comprising a component for sending identification information about the roaming phone from the roaming phone to the visiting mobile switching center to register the roaming phone, a component for receiving from the visiting mobile switching center a communication containing an acknowledgement of registration with the visiting mobile switching center and location information about the roaming area, a component for determining the visiting roaming service provider node from the location information, a component for sending a request message to the roaming service provider node with the identification information about the roaming phone, a component for receiving a response message containing a local number to re-register the roaming phone as a local cell-phone, a component for sending the local number to the visiting mobile switching center to re-register the roaming phone as a local cell-phone, a component for receiving a re-registration acknowledgement from the visiting mobile switching center, and a component for sending an information message to the roaming service provider node informing the visiting roaming service provider node of successful registrati