Abstract: A system and method for providing custom telephone services to a network of independent Service Providers (SP's) includes a network Service Control Point (SCP) and an associated network Service Creation Environment (SCE) at the network level. A number of SP's have SCE terminals which are interfaced with the network SCE through a network file server. This allows the SP's to create custom services and also to access custom services via a common bulletin board of services maintained at the network SCE. Dedicated, distributed SCP's owned by participating SP's are linked to the network SCP via a high speed data link and use a common operating and application system which provides expanded call processing capabilities, monitoring and system redundancy for the distributed SCP's.