Call initiating system for mobile telephone units

A telephone call initiating system according to the invention is provided in order to make it possible to control telephone call initiation from an extremely small mobile communication terminal. This is accomplished with a key input section, a speech recognition section, a data base and display section, and a data base input control section for forming a record. The record consists of telephone number data from the key input section and data including family and given names from the speech recognition section. The record is stored into the data base. A search parameter accepting section searches the data base for the record according to data including the family and given names, and stores the retrieved record into a work area. A scroll control section scrolls, in predetermined units, the retrieved record and displays the data on the display section. A call initiation accepting section supplies a call initiating instruction according to the telephone number in the scrolled record, and a call initiation processing section responds to the call initiating instruction to initiate a call according to the telephone number.