The present invention provides a multi-mode personal communication network system comprising an alternate line option (ALO) module which is situated between a customer two wire telephone connection and a wireline public switched telephone network (PSTN), said ALO module comprises: switching means which are coupled between said customer two wire telephone connection and said wireline PSTN, for selectively interrupting said customer two wire telephone connection to disconnect said customer two wire telephone connection from said wireline PSTN; control means, which are coupled to said switching means, for providing call allocation messages to said switching means selectively to allocate call communication services between said PSTN and a wireless telecommunications network, said control means including an intelligent processor that responds to control messages from a wireless carrier over a wireless communication link, said control messages being received prior to said call communications services; and means, which are responsive to said switching means, for activating a wireless network transceiver in said module to provide said call communication services using said wireless network.