Patent ID: RE40492

Claim:
A method for providing hardwired telephony service, comprising the steps of: (A) laying out a concentration of electrical power consumer premises selected from the group consisting of individual users and multiple-user apartment buildings, office buildings, and industrial complexes, with existing electrical power wiring; (B) preparing a pattern, within the concentration of electrical power consumer premises, for estimating potential subscribers for telephony exchange service, by: (i) determining the a number and location of transformers supplying consumers with electrical power within such concentration, (ii) determining the a number of such consumers supplied with electrical power by each respective transformer with electrical power consumers being located within a selected preferred radius of each such respective transformer; (C) establishing an operations center, selectively located with relation to such concentration, for control of reception and re-transmitting of telecommunications for potential telephony exchange subscribers in such pattern; (D) providing public-switched telephone access means and a worldwide Internet service provider at such operations center; (E) extending a packetized data signal carrier, or predetermined capacity, from such operations center to a location for at least one electrical power transformer connected for delivery of transformer output by means of an electrical power line to respective consumers within such preferred radius, from such at least one transformer; (F) electrically connecting a transformer service unit ( TSU ) , for potential telephony exchange subscribers, to such transformer output by reactance coupling, so as to enable transferring both electrical power and packetized data signals, for such power and telephony exchange subscribers; (G) sorting packetized data signals, being carried by such reactance coupled connection between such transformer and such TSU, for transfer on such existing electrical power wiring extending from such respective transformer unit to such power consumers and telephony exchange subscribers; (H) installing a subscriber server means connected to a power outlet, at such electrical power consumer's premises, for receiving packetized data signals; (I) converting packetized data signals for subscriber use selected from the group consisting of (i) plain old telephone communications, (ii) digital phone communications, and (iii) worldwide Internet communications.