15 each region e g a or b may also have its own regional administrator system such as indicated at 20 and 22 referring now to fig2 another embodiment of the invention will now be described this embodiment is particularly useful for an office 30 which is similar to office 10 except that office 30 does not have a sufficient number of communication devices for originating telephone calls to warrant the use of a local office control unit 48 described in more detail below in fig4 in this instance an office 30 contacts a central processing hub 32 via telephone cellular or any other network 34 for example by using a u201c 1 800 u201d number the central processing hub 32 includes a control unit as described below in connection with fig4 and a local database the office 30 makes the connection with the central processing hub 32 and enables a communication device at office 30 to initiate further outgoing telephone calls as indicated at 36 the central processing hub 32 is connected to the central processing system 16 via a computer network 38 to enable entity wide or corporate wide administration of the dnc database combinations of the embodiments shown in fig1 and 2 are also possible referring now to fig3 an embodiment of the present invention will now be described in which a local office 10 has connections called trunk lines between a customer 39 s telephone equipment 42 and a central office 40 an office control unit 48 for each office 10 in the embodiment shown in fig1 and the central processing hub 32 as shown in fig2 have connections to the central processing system as indicated at 16 an office 10 typically has.