The invention relates to a method for service provision in a
telecommunications network, specifically in an intelligent network. In
accordance with the method, service programs (SLP) are stored in at least
one network element of the network, service is provided by starting the
desired service program in the network element offering services, and each
service is produced from a set of successive features. In order to make
the adding of new services and maintenance of services provided by the
network simpler than heretofore, keys (Fk) for the features in use and
additionally information on which of the service programs (SLP) is capable
of executing said feature are stored in the network element offering
services, at least some of the service programs are implemented in such a
way that the part of the service program implementing the corresponding
feature is defined by means of said key, and the service is offered by
defining a given ordered set of feature keys and by executing in said
order the parts of at least one service program corresponding to the
feature keys.
