The calling party attempts to make a call to the called party and receives an indication that the called party is unavailable.

A called-party user terminal (23) receives the incoming call from a calling party (21 ) and notifies the called party.

The method further includes verifying the called party acceptance message (625) and transmitting the called party acceptance message and a called party certificate to the caller (635).

This time, the called party is credited with a portion of the surcharge.

The called party does not accept the request.

The calling party will be notified about the geographic location of called party and the corresponding current local time only if called party has activated the system.

called party BCD number information element

The idea underlying the present application is that the dynamic information of social networking services can be integrated in call control services by retrieving this information and providing it to the call participants.

A user terminal client (68) provides the called party with a pluraiity of response options and receives a selected response from the called party.

The calling party then dials all or part of the telephone number of the dialled party and the calling party is then advised of the time and location of the called party.

The called party is given call disposition options.

Then the current presence state of the called party is announced to the caller party by playing a prerecorded voice message representing the current presence state of the called party.

The calling party then has an opportunity to provide confirmation that the calling party wishes to be connected to the called party.

When sending to the called party, the calling party may merely provide an address from which the called party may retrieve the non-real time information.

A telephone call is set up between the calling party and the called party using the telephony function on the basis of the collected called party identifier.