Transmission of data packets over cdma type cellular telephone

A system and method for enabling the use of popular serial networking application software to transmit PPP packet data via a CDMA type subscriber device to a network such as the internet. One or more reserved phone numbers is stored in memory within the subscriber device. The networking application is provided a telephone number to be dialed in order to make a connection to the internet. The telephone number provided to the networking application is compared to the stored reserved telephone numbers. If there is a match, the subscriber device transmits a CONNECT signal back to the networking application and initiates a packet data call. If there is no match, the subscriber device initiates an asynchronous data call.