An image communication apparatus is provided which is capable of
transmitting images using network addresses corresponding to telephone
numbers derived from a plurality of telephone systems.The image
communication apparatus for use in the image communication network system
containing a computer network, inside telephone network, outside
telephone network, first address supplying device to store correspondence
between inside numbers and network addresses and a second address
supplying device to store correspondence between outside telephone
numbers and network addresses, is provided with a judging section to
judge whether an input telephone of another facsimile can be used, an
address receiving section receives network addresses corresponding to
input telephone numbers from either of both address supplying devices
based on judgment of the judging section and an image transmitting
section to transmit images through computer networks to the another image
communication apparatus based on network addresses.