1. A method of operating a telecommunication network to route a first phone call, from a caller to a first channel of a free position of a plurality of positions at a selected destination of a network subscriber, based on voice and data transport capability, and for connecting a second phone call from the caller to a second channel of the same free position to create a multi-channel data call, wherein the selected destination is one of a plurality of destinations selected by the network subscriber identified by a common telephone number and each of the plurality of positions is associated with a discrete telephone number, the method comprising: associating with the first phone call a plurality of discriminators common to both voice and data calls, and an additional data rate discriminator corresponding to a data rate used by the calling party, when the first phone call is a data call, accessing a database in response to receiving the common telephone number from the calling party for obtaining a subscriber selected destination number for a voice call based on the common discriminators and a separate subscriber selected destination number for a data call, wherein the separate subscriber selected destination number for the data call is based on the common discriminator and the data rate used by the caller, obtaining the separate subscriber selected destination number fix the first phone call, completing the first phone call to the separate subscriber selected destination number and hunting the first phone call to a first channel of a free position of the plurality of positions, providing the discrete telephone number associated with the free position over the first channel to the caller, and receiving the second phone call, made by the caller to the discrete telephone number associated with the free position, at a second channel of the free position.
1. A method of operating a telecommunication network to route a first phone call, from a caller to a first channel of a free position of a plurality of positions at a selected destination of a network subscriber, based on voice and data transport capability, and for connecting a second phone call from the caller to a second channel of the same free position to create a multi-channel data call, wherein the selected destination is one of a plurality of destinations selected by the network subscriber identified by a common telephone number and each of the plurality of positions is associated with a discrete telephone number, the method comprising: associating with the first phone call a plurality of discriminators common to both voice and data calls, and an additional data rate discriminator corresponding to a data rate used by the calling party, when the first phone call is a data call, accessing a database in response to receiving the common telephone number from the calling party for obtaining a subscriber selected destination number for a voice call based on the common discriminators and a separate subscriber selected destination number for a data call, wherein the separate subscriber selected destination number for the data call is based on the common discriminator and the data rate used by the caller, obtaining the separate subscriber selected destination number fix the first phone call, completing the first phone call to the separate subscriber selected destination number and hunting the first phone call to a first channel of a free position of the plurality of positions, providing the discrete telephone number associated with the free position over the first channel to the caller, and receiving the second phone call, made by the caller to the discrete telephone number associated with the free position, at a second channel of the free position. 5. The method of claim 1 wherein the first channel is one of an ISDN A-channel or ISDN B-channel.