Lucent Technologies Inc.

Cary A Strohecker, Sr

Thomas H Daugherty

Lyla R Meader

Rand J Edwards

Gary M Berkowitz

S Mark Klerer

An operations facility is provided for administering unsubscribed telephone lines and conserving the use of the phone numbers associated with such lines by associating a plurality of unsubscribed lines with the same telephone number and same switch line termination point. Advantageously, then, a plurality of unsubscribed lines may be inexpensively provisioned with soft dial tone, thereby allowing a potential telephone subscriber to interactively subscribe to and activate telephone service from an unsubscribed line. Moreover, the application of soft dial tone may be used to identify a network access endpoint that is being used by a customer, and thus improve the accuracy of the contents of databases used by the operations facility in the provisioning of telephone service by identifying incorrect data.

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Alpharetta, GA, United States of America

Cary A Strohecker, Sr