A system for communicating with the user of a cellular telephone via the
cellular mobile radio (CMR) system and the public switched telephone
network (PSTN). A communications interface appends the telephone exchange
number of an outgoing communication to include an identifier unique to
the communications interface. The outgoing communication is transmitted
by the cellular telephone to the CMR system, which recognizes and
verifies the outgoing communication originating with the communications
interface. Accordingly, the origination of the outgoing communication
from a communications interface is documented prior to forwarding the
outgoing communication to its intended recipient via the PSTN.
Communications incoming to a communications interface are authenticated
as such, and a record as the this is created, prior to forwarding the
incoming communication to the cellular telephone.