COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING AN INTERNET CONNECTION BY MEANS OF A TELEPHONE

The present invention relates to a communication system and a method for providing a communication connection between a telephone user and an information server. The communication system includes a first communication network (10) to which a plurality of telephones (15) can be connected, and a second communication network (20), in particular, the internet, to which at least one server (25) containing retrievable graphic and/or textual representations, can be connected. The object of the present invention is to provide a communication system and a method which permit a customer an acoustic, in particular, spoken access, via a telephone, to a server which is connected, in particular, to the internet and which provides graphic and/or textual information. For this purpose, the communication network features a connection device (30) which interconnects the first and second communication networks (10; 20). Moreover, the connection device (30) includes a conversion device (100) for converting at least a part of a loaded graphic and/or textual representation into a corresponding acoustic representation for transmission to the telephone (15).