Telecommunications equipment, namely telephone caller identification boxes, electronic rate boxes namely set-top boxes for automatically viewing per minute local and long distance rates and the dialed number; telephone billing systems for use in monitoring and viewing rates and numbers dialed from public phone booths, comprised of set-top boxes that automatically bill the correct charges for local and long distance telephone calls in order to calculate accurate billing charges to the telephone line; magnetic coded phone card readers, telephone line converter boxes, telephone line and computer network adaptors and telephone electrical pulse/tone registration connectors, telephone connection port modules for connecting several telephones together, telephone and telephone fax line filters for the elimination of static and interference caused by electric discharges from telephone and telephone fax lines, internal and external modems, flat panel display screens for telephone switch boxes, telephone line splitters and telephone network routers; computer software used to operate telecommunications equipment namely telephone routers, telephone switches, telephone lines, telephone networks and telephone systems