A voicegram service center for use with a telephone system, including recording as an analog signal at the service center, a voicegram of spoken words or data (datagram) received from a sending telephone subscriber's set, delivering to a preselected receiving telephone subscriber's set a reproduction voicegram in the sender's voice or reproduction data (datagram) as derived from the recorded analog signal at the service center, providing at the service center a cassette replica of the reproduction voicegram or data as delivered to the receiving set, and providing at the service center information pertaining to the identifying numbers of the respective sending and receiving sets, the originating time and date of the voicegram or data, the time length of the voicegram or data recording, the delivery time and date of the reproduction voicegram or data, the number of attempts required to make the reproduction voicegram or data delivery, the time length of the reproduction voicegram or data delivery, and the class of the voicegram or data for computing the charge of the voicegram or data to the sending set.
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