A wireless information communication system and method, such as a paging
network, that provides caller identification information transmitted from
the public switched telephone network to a pager, PDA (Personal Digital
Assistant), a portable computing device, or personal communication device
carried by a page-receiving communicant. The system and method may
include a textual or synthesized voice query to verify the telephone
number and/or name information that was derived from caller
identification information received, and may also prompt a caller to
enter other optional data such as alternative caller-identifying
information, call-back information or message information. The wireless
system and method then transmits at least one of the caller
identification information and the optional data to a page-receiving
communicant. A voice mail system or answering machine that stores
messages from a caller may be connected to the wireless system, and a
paging notification to a page-receiving communicant may be generated upon
receipt of a message at a message center. A cellular communication system
may also implement the wireless information communication system by
transmitting a paging message containing caller identification
information and optional data to a cellular radiotelephone device. The
transmitted paging message may include digital data representative of the
caller identification information that is encrypted or encoded, and can
be used to output a dialing signal for other purposes from within the
cellular radiotelephone device.