A system for providing integrated multimedia and voice telephone service by simply
dialing a telephone number is provided. One or both parties of a typical voice
telephone call placed by the calling party dialing the called party number may
simultaneously receive multimedia packets of data associated with the other party
if both of the voice telephone devices are connected to or associated with a multimedia
display device, and both telephone numbers are associated with clients or subscribers
of the multimedia service. Multimedia data that may be provided to one or both
parties includes names, office hours, maps of the other party's location, etc.