Method and apparatus for remotely selecting the most economical communications transmission medium by selecting from among different mediums and a plurality of simulataneously operable communication devices sharing standard telephone residential wiring

A method for remotely selecting the most economical communications transmission medium for sending a particular communications session from among a plurality of communication mediums connected to a plurality of simultaneously operable communications devices sharing standard residential telephone wiring, comprising:

• entering a predetermined signal into a control module;
• fetching economic decision data from a memory if said predetermined signal is detected by said control module;
• analyzing said economic decision data to determine the most economical communications medium for a particular instance of said economic decision data;
• selecting said most economical communications medium from among a plurality of communications mediums based upon the result of said analyzing of said economic decision data, and;
• enabling the sending of telephony communications using said most economical communications medium by causing a communications circuit to be established over one of a plurality of possible communications circuits.