PURPOSE: To attain efficient communication by accepting an incoming call during communication and sending message information for the reply.
CONSTITUTION: When a terminal equipment C makes a call to a busy terminal equipment A, the reception is allowed in the presence of an idle channel, an ALERT is sent to a network to apply D-channel connection between the terminal equipment C and A, a B2 channel being an idle B channel is used and the state is transited to the talking state. Then a message in response to the state among contents such as 'The line is busy but will be terminated soon, then hold the line without hooking on the handset' or 'We will call back later. Please hook on the heandset' from the message generated previously by the operator is selected and replied by a command from an operation section 103.