A telephone call information delivery system includes answering circuitry
to answer a telephone call incoming from a service provider and to attain
information input by a caller. The system further includes an information
signal provider to provide at least one signal to deliver at least some
of the attained information to a user. As an example, from the delivered
information the user can decide whether or not to answer the incoming
call. In another embodiment, the system further includes an alert signal
provider to provide a signal to alert the user and an activator to
receive instruction from the user. The information signal provider
operates responsive to the activator. This embodiment answers an incoming
call, attains information from the caller, alerts the user, the user then
instructs the activator and the signal provider responds and delivers
attained information to the user. The user then decides whether to answer
the call.