A method and apparatus supporting the handling of calls using simulcasting
of multimedia information via a broadband access gateway are disclosed. A
broadband access gateway supporting both a personal area network and a
broadband network may receive multimedia information simultaneously
exchanged by an associated access device via a wide area network. The
broadband access gateway may store the received multimedia information
locally, within the broadband access gateway, or may communicate the
multimedia information to storage accessible from the broadband access
gateway. The broadband access gateway may cause a user of the access
device to be notified of the availability of multimedia information for a
recorded call, and may communicate the multimedia information to the
access device for playback. A user may be notified if storage and
bandwidth for the recording of a call is not available.