ide eide or ultra direct memory access udma or a small computer system interface scsi based interface or a variation or enhancement thereof such as fast scsi wide scsi fast and wide scsi etc or a fiber channel arbitrated loop fc al interface in the example shown in fig4 memory 408 includes server routines 412 ivr interface routines 414 call connection routines 416 database access routines 418 and operating system 428 server system 218 may also include server database system 220 one of skill in the art would recognize that these functions along with the memory contents related to those functions may be included on one system or may be distributed among a plurality of systems based on well known engineering considerations the present invention contemplates any and all such arrangements for example server database system 220 and or ivr 222 may be included in server 218 or they may be implemented separately from server 218 server routines 412 include software that implements the functionality of prepaid server platform 202 shown in fig1 ivr interface routines 414 provide the capability to interface an ivr such as ivr 222 with server system 218 and to interoperate with the ivr call connection routines 416 provide the capability to connect calls with mobile telephones such.