AUTOMATIC ANSWERING TELEPHONE SYSTEM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a caller to always enter a message to a message storage device at a cost of a local speech charge by providing an information transfer device placed within a range of a local telephone system, for the caller as a terminal in a telephone network. SOLUTION: A call is transferred to any of nearby information transfer devices 10-1n, and a caller connecting to any of the devices enters a message to a callee and subscriber information of the callee represented by a telephone number. Based on contents stored in callee message storage device information storage sections 102-10n and on contents stored in subscriber information storage sections 103-1n3 recording positions of message storage devices 30-3m corresponding to automatic answering telephone subscribers, a call is made to the message storage devices 30-3m corresponding to the subscriber of the automatic answering telephone system and the stored message is transferred to the message storage devices 30-3m corresponding to the subscriber of the automatic answering telephone system to transfer the message from the caller.