A communications device (11) is connected with a subscriber switching
station
(13) through a subscriber line (12). The subscriber switching station
(13) has a subscriber switching system (14), a switch (15),
and an LAN (16). The subscriber line (12) is selectively connected
with the subscriber switching station (14) and the LAN (16) through
the corresponding switch (15). A conventional dial operation is performed
for conventional communications. On the other hand, "0AB0" is dialed to participate
communications over the LAN (16) when accessing a resource for example the
WWW server (17) on the LAN (16). Then, a transfer request is sent
to the WWW server (17) using a conventional procedure, and the device receives
a required HTML document and the associated files.
