Wireless telephone system including voice over ip and pots

The present invention relates to a telephone, or which may be located to receive the call through the PSTN or packet networks. The phone can store a plurality of phone numbers for each of the potential parties to be called with a priority of controlling the order of selecting the phone number to service any given take-off call. Some or all of the telephone numbers may be associated with participation service. The participation indication is stored in the phone dynamically updated through the packet network connection is used as part of a phone number selection algorithm. A preferred embodiment is a radio system having a base station and remote unit.