Method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber

A method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber, the method comprising:

• selecting to call a first telecommunication subscriber by a second telecommunication subscriber:
• signaling a call from a second telecommunications device of a second telecommunications subscriber to a first telecommunications device of a first telecommunications subscriber;
• sending first device information from the second telecommunications device to the first telecommunications device which indicates components of subscriber data that the first telecommunications device wants to receive;
• comparing the first device information with second device information stored in the second telecommunication device which indicates a components of subscriber data that the second telecommunication device allows to transmit to the first telecommunication device and determining the subscriber data stored in said second telecommunication device that complies with the first device information and the second device information;
• and
• transmitting the determined subscriber data from the first telecommunications device to the second telecommunications device in accordance with the device information.

A telecommunications device for identifying a telecommunications subscriber, comprising:

• a memory for storing subscriber data and for storing first device information indicating components of subscriber data that the telecommunication device allows to transmit to the telecommunications subscriber;
• a facility for receiving second device information of a further telecommunications device of said telecommunications subscriber which indicates components of subscriber data that the telecommunications device wants to receive;
• a facility for determining particular subscriber data that comply with the first and second device information;
• and
• a facility for transmitting the particular subscriber data from the memory to the further telecommunications device.