Telecommunications services, namely, local and long distance telephone transmission services; telephone communication services, and associated voice mail and custom calling features, namely, three way calling, speed dialing, call forwarding, call return, call waiting, caller ID; electronic transmission of data, sound, text, image messages, video and documents via computer, television and telecommunications networks; telecommunications gateway services; providing telecommunications connections to a global computer network; providing multiple-user access to a global computer information network; and high-speed Internet transmission services