56CHAPTER 5: STANDARD FEATURES
destination phone becomes available. When you activate camp on, the system monitors the called telephone. When the extension can receive a call, the system automatically dials your phone (using a priority ring or other audible ring tone that is different than your programmed ring tone) and redials the original called extension.
You can camp on system extensions. You cannot camp on external phone numbers, hunt groups, pickup groups, or paging groups. If the called extension does not become free within a time period specified by your administrator, Camp On expires.
To camp on an extension you call:
1When you make a call and hear a busy tone, press Feature + 469. The system camps on the phone you are calling. You can hang up.
2When the called extension becomes available, the system calls your phone. When you answer your phone, the called extension begins to ring.
To camp on an extension when you transfer a call:
1When you are transferring a call and hear a busy tone, press Feature + 469. The system camps on the phone you are calling. Explain to the person whose call you are transferring that the call will call back. When you hang up, the person whose call you are transferring is put on hold.
2When the called extension becomes available, the system calls the destination extension.
If Camp On expires before the destination becomes available, the system calls you back and connects you to the person whose call you were transferring.
Transferring Your This feature enables you to use any 3Com phone attached to the same
Phone Settings to VCX system (call processor) as your phone with all your phone’s settings.
Another Phone
It is possible for an administrator to lock an extension to a particular phone. If this is the case, you cannot program the phone to use your extension.