Sbc Properties, L.p.

Wilbur John Walkoe, Jr

Bruce Edward Stuckman

Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, Jr

Michael Steven Pickard

Denise Violetta Kagan

Michael George Gorman

Michael Tisiker

Scott Christopher Goering

Jeffrey Neumann

David Anthony Orwick

James Stewart Barber

A telecommunication system includes a digital switch, a local loop coupling the digital switch to a subscriber location, wherein a segment of the local loop includes copper twisted pair and wherein an asymmetrical digital subscriber line is carried by the local loop, the asymmetrical digital subscriber line including a plurality of data packets capable of carrying a plurality of derived digital telephone lines. The telecommunication system further includes a subscriber unit coupled to the asymmetrical digital subscriber line. The subscriber unit monitors the content of at least one of the plurality of data packets, receives an off-hook signal in response to an action of a user, and initiates a first derived digital telephone line of the plurality of derived digital telephone lines in response to the off-hook signal. A telephone communication system including an analog telephone providing a plain old telephone service (POTS) analog voice channel on a subscriber loop with a digital data line sharing the same subscriber loop. In addition to the analog voice line, the digital data line provides an additional digital voice channel for placing telephone voice calls.

Telecommunication system, method and subscriber unit for use therein

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Overland Park, KS, United States of America

Wilbur John Walkoe, Jr