Abstract: A telephone ringback apparatus includes a microprocessor-controlled communications device which is connectable with telephone equipment contained in a central office, such as a toll trunk facility, having the capability of identifying the number of a calling party. In response to the telephone user dialing a prescribed ringback access code, the apparatus signals the toll trunk facility causing it to transmit a message representative of the number of the telephone from which the user is calling. Upon receipt of this message the telephone number of the calling party is stored. A synthesized voice message is transmitted to the user instructing the user to hang-up. When the apparatus detects that the phone has been placed back on-hook, it proceeds to transmit dialing signals containing the previously stored number of the telephone, causing the calling party's telephone to ring.