Sequential calling system with prioritization of the last dialed telephone number

A device for establishing a telecommunication connection from a caller to a called party via a telecommunication network, the device comprising:

• a memory storing for a plurality of telephone numbers in each case of a called party who can be reached on at least one of the stored telephone numbers when called and a universal telephone number in the telecommunication network for the called party;
• a memory storing for the telephone number of the called party on which a telecommunication connection has last been set up successfully to the called party called by the caller;
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• a telephone number dialing device operative so that in case of a call to the universal number of the called party the dialing device in each case successively attempts to set up a telecommunication connection to the called party on the stored telephone numbers by dialing in each case one of the stored telephone numbers of the called party until a telecommunication connection to the called party has been successfully set up, wherein the successive attempts include first dialing a mobile number of the called party and subsequently dialing a second telephone number as the telephone number which was stored as the last successful telephone number of the called party, in the case of a successful setting-up of a telecommunication connection the dialing device stores the telephone number of the called party on which this successful setting-up took place in the telecommunication network.

A method for establishing a telecommunication connection from a caller to a called party using at least one telecommunication network, comprising the steps of:

• storing a plurality of telephone numbers at which a called party can be reached in a telecommunication network and storing one of the plurality of telephone numbers as a universal telephone number in the telecommunication network for telecommunication subscriber;
• successively attempting to set up a telecommunication connection to the called party when the universal number is dialed by a caller by first dialing the universal number comprising the one of the plurality of telephone numbers of the called party and checking, if the called party is unavailable at the one of the plurality of telephone numbers, for the last successful number at which the called party was reached and subsequently dialing the last successful number;
• storing, when a telecommunication connection has been successfully set up, the telephone number of the called party on which the successful setting-up took place in the telecommunication network;
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• effecting a connection from the caller to the called party.