Telephone communication system

A telephone communication system comprises a first apparatus or apparatuses on a call-originating side and a second apparatus or apparatuses on a call-incoming side that communicate by telephone via a communication network capable of wideband communication and narrowband communication,

• wherein the first apparatus includes a first telephone and a first gateway connected with the first telephone and the second apparatus includes a second telephone and a second gateway connected with the second telephone, the first gateway and the second gateway being connected via the communication network,
• at least one of the first apparatus (call-originating side) and the second apparatus (call-incoming side) includes:
• one of a first type of wideband telephone capable of wideband communication and narrowband communication, a second type of wideband telephone exclusively used for wideband communication or a narrowband telephone exclusively used for narrowband communication serving as the first telephone or the second telephone;
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• one of a network connection apparatus capable of wideband communication and narrowband communication or a network connection apparatus exclusively used for narrowband communication, as the first gateway or the second gateway, at least one of the first or second gateway having a wideband communication function as a wideband gateway and receiving an input signal from the first telephone or the second gateway that serves as an input object and transmits an output signal to the second gateway or the first telephone that serves as an output object;
• wherein one of the first or second gateway has a correcting section which judges whether the input signal from the input object is wideband or narrowband and judges whether the transmission capability or communication function of the output object is wideband or narrowband, if the input signal and output object are different, the correcting section corrects the input signal into an opposite signal as the output signal so that the output signal corresponds to the communication function of the output object, the transmission capability or communication function being set according to a control protocol, such as H.323, SIP, MGCP or a similar protocol;
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• wherein, when a first or second apparatus exclusively used for narrowband communication, and one of a first or second apparatus capable of wideband communication and narrowband communication or a first or second apparatus exclusively used for wideband communication exist mixedly in between one end and another end of a communication path, at least one of phone-call path parts between adjacent ones of the first and second apparatuses is set to be different in transmission capability on a per phone-call path part basis, and the transmission capability of each apparatus is controlled to achieve the highest communication quality in the mixed situation by sending and receiving information about transmission capabilities of the first and second apparatuses in between the one end and the another end.