Broadband communications access device

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

• a home gateway interface for automatically initializing wireless voice communications, automatic initializing wireless data communications and for providing gateway, routing and bridging 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 multiple virtual communications paths used for wireless broadband communications;
• a plurality of wireless communications interfaces for automatically connecting to external wireless devices, for automatically connecting to one or more wireless communications networks, for providing wireless broadband communications and for providing wireless narrow-band communications, wherein the plurality of wireless communications interfaces includes a Bluetooth protocol interface, an 802.11b protocol interface, a RF Home protocol interface, a Shared Wireless Access Protocol interface and a Wireless Application Protocol interface, and wherein the plurality of wireless communications interface include a short-range wireless communications interface for connecting to external wireless network devices on a wireless piconet and a long-range wireless communications interface for connecting to external wireless network devices on a wireless wide area network and wherein one or more of the plurality of wireless communications interfaces includes wireless communications channels for wireless Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications;
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• a multi-function telephony handset for providing telephony communications.