A video-phone call with a portable video-phone terminal is enabled for a
cellular phone which has not video-phone service provided, by making use
of cameras and display devices placed on the street. For a video-phone
call to a portable video-phone terminal, a media converter in a service
center distributes data so as to send video data to a public
communication terminal on the street, and voice data to a cellular phone
without video recording/reproducing capability. A call agent in a service
center issues an ID in response to a request from the cellular phone
without video recording/reproducing capability on voice call. This ID may
be received by a service center via a detector such as a sensor deployed
on the street, to provide a video-phone service by using a public
communication terminal on the street in the vicinity of the detector.