Disclosed is a system and a methodology enabling a first provider party to
provide to a second recipient party software and services to enable the
recipient party to embed in an Internet e-mail of the recipient party
directed to an addressee, an HTML hyperlink file which includes a
telecommunication initiating trigger, sending the e-mail to the addressee
via the Internet, the addressee upon receiving the e-mail actuating the
hyperlink via its trigger and, responsive to the trigger actuation,
connecting the addressee via the Internet to a web page located on an
Internet server, wherein the web page includes a request for a telephone
number of the addressee. The addressee entering its telephone number
information at the server, which information is communicated to a
database associated with the server, the server communicating with the
database and with a telephony switch, including sending to the switch
instructions which result in the switch originating and managing a public
switched telephone network (PSTN) communication between the recipient
party and the addressee.