the initiating station when this occurs the station acting as an emulated base station then appears to itself go off hook to the central office co thereby making a connection to the central office the initiating subscriber station then proceeds to complete the call by dialing the desired number when the initiating subscriber unit goes on hook the emulated base station is so informed by the vcw and presents an on hook appearance to the central office when the emulated base station detects a ring signal from the central office the subscriber unit is caused to ring by means of the corresponding vcw from the emulated base station when the subscriber unit thereafter goes off hook the emulated base station is so informed via the corresponding vcw and it then presents an off hook appearance to the central office the above type of wireless phone system configuration is exemplified in fig8 where the subscriber unit 90 is shown in wireless communication via antennas 92 and 94 with the emulated base station 96 the station 96 is in wireline communication via line 98 and interface 100 with the central office the above described system can be employed with a dual subscriber arrangement as shown in fig9 in this.