A METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY PROVISIONING TELEPHONE SERVICE

An operations facility is provided for administering unsubscribed telephone lines and conserving the use of telephone numbers associated with suchlines by associating a plurality of unsubscribed lines with the same telephone number and same switch line termination point. Advantageously, then, a plurality of unsubscribed lines may be inexpensively provisioned with soft dial tone, therebyallowing a potential telephone subscriber to interactively subscribe to and activate telephone service from an unsubscribed line. Moreover, the application of soft dial tone may be used to identify a network access endpoint that is being used by a customer, and thus improve the accuracy of the contents of databases used by theoperations facility in the provisioning of telephone service by identifying incorrect data.