Providing voice dialing service for wireless roamers

In a telecommunications network, a method of providing voice dialing service to wireless roamers comprising the steps of:

• detecting a call comprising a voice dialing service request;
• determining whether a service node serving said call has voice dialing data for a calling station of said call;
• if said service node has said voice dialing data, completing said call using said voice dialing data;
• if said service node does not have said voice dialing data, broadcasting a request for said voice dialing data to other service nodes of a telecommunications network;
• if another service node has a voice dialing data file for said calling station, responding to said broadcast request by transmitting said voice dialing data over a wideband wide area network to said serving service node;
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• using the transmitted voice dialing data file to identify a telephone number corresponding to a word or phrase spoken by said caller completing said call.