Telephone comprising automatic calling device that compares phone number fields for composition of the dialed number.

A mobile telephone comprising an automatic calling device notably including

• storage means for storing data representing the telephone numbers of called parties, subdivided into at least three areas intended for the programming of three separate data fields;
• programming means for programming the contents of said fields, provided for putting in the first field a first code which represents various countries where the called parties are located, in the second field a second code which represents a prefix which is linked with the country where said called parties are located and with the relative location of the user and of the called party, and in the third field a third code which represents said called party's private number;
• detection means for detecting the contents of said fields while the user of the telephone is calling a called party;
• calling means for calling as a function of the results of said detections;
• characterized in that:
• the detection of a first empty field or, in contrast, programmed field corresponds to a call that has either or not been effected within the frontiers of the country where the user and the called party are located;
• the detection of a second empty field or, in contrast, programmed field corresponds, when the first field itself is programmed, to an international type of call with or without a prefix respectively, of the number of the called party;
• the detection of a second programmed field or, in contrast, empty field corresponds, when the first field itself is empty, to a call in the local mode, the choice of either an operator and the associated calling network or, in contrast, of a database network being then possible.