Mobile telephone instruments and wireless telecommunications system

A wireless telephone system for use with wireless telephone instruments individually prepaid for limited use, the system for enabling telecommunication from the wireless telephone instruments to other target telephone terminals through a dial-up network, the system comprising:

• a voice generator for providing vocal cues to the wireless telephone instruments;
• a voice detector for translating voice representations from the wireless telephone instruments to program signals and to dial-up telephone signals;
• a platform for interfacing the wireless telephone instruments to provide vocal cues from the voice generator to said wireless telephone instruments and to receive program signals and dial-up telephone signals from the voice detector;
• a memory for storing the program signals for the operation of individual wireless telephone instruments including incoming call program signals for the operation of the individual wireless telephone instruments with regard to rejecting all incoming calls whereby to program out-call only operation for individual telephone instruments;
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• control means for controlling the voice generator, the voice detector, and the platform to interface a wireless telephone instrument for qualifying calls from the wireless telephone instruments and to dial-up a target telephone terminal through said dial-up network in accordance with dial-up telephone signals and said stored program signals for the operation of the wireless telephone instrument.

A wireless telephone system accommodating a plurality of wireless mobile telephone instruments to communicate through a public switched telephone network, and programmable whereby select ones of said wireless mobile telephone instruments may be operated either to take or not take incoming calls, said wireless telephone system comprising:

• a wireless platform to interface the wireless telephone instruments for telephonic communications including to receive interface control data from said wireless telephone instruments during preliminary programming operations;
• a memory to store operational data for the wireless telephone instruments, including interface control data;
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• a control unit coupled to control the wireless platform in accordance with the interface control data and for storing the interface control data received from the wireless telephone instruments during preliminary programming operations to program the interface operation of the wireless telephone instruments for select operating characteristics including a choice for an individual instrument to take or not take incoming calls, and if programmed to take incoming calls, assigning a calling telephone number to the individual instrument.