Broadband communications access device

An integrated phone-based home gateway system, comprising in combination:

• a home gateway interface for initializing wireless voice communications, initializing wireless data communications and for providing gateway, routing and bridging functionality for wireless networking communications, wherein the home gateway interface includes automatic service provisioning on the home gateway interface for automatically allocating, configuring and maintaining multiple transmission channels and virtual communications paths used for wireless and wired broadband communications;
• a wired communications interface for connecting to external wired devices, for connection to one or more wired broadband communications networks and for providing wired broadband communications;
• a wireless communications interface for connecting to external wireless devices, for connecting to one or more wireless communications networks, for providing broadband wireless data communications and for providing broadband wireless voice communications, wherein the wireless communications interface includes a short-range wireless communications interface for connecting to a wireless piconet and a long-range wireless communications interface for connecting to a wireless wide area network;
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• a multi-function telephony handset for providing telephony communications.