42CHAPTER 5: STANDARD FEATURES
Dialing an To dial an external call:
External Call
1Pick up the handset or, if you are using an NBX Business Telephone, you can press Speaker button.
If your telephone defaults to an internal line, dial 9 or 8 to access an external line.
If you are using an NBX Business Telephone and one of the buttons is configured to access an external line directly, press that Access button.
2Dial the number.
3When you are finished speaking, hang up the handset, or if you are using the Speaker, press Speaker button to terminate the call.
Redialing a Call On an NBX Business Telephone:
1Pick up the handset and press Redial, or
2Press Redial to activate the speaker phone while your telephone redials the number.
On an NBX Basic Telephone:
1Pick up the handset on your telephone.
2Press Feature button and 401.
Answering a Call To answer an incoming call, pick up the handset or, if you are using an NBX Business Telephone, you can press Speaker button. The display panel shows the name and extension of the internal caller.
See “Status Icons on the NBX Basic Telephone” in Chapter 3 for details about managing multiple incoming calls on an NBX Basic Telephone.
To display the name and extension of external callers, you need Caller ID service from your local telephone company.
When you do not answer a call within a preset number of rings, the call is forwarded to the path that you specify in the NetSet utility. See “Creating Your Call Forward Path” in the next section of this chapter for details.