AT&T EP5995 user manual Adding new handsets

Appendix

Adding new handsets

Your telephone can accommodate up to eight cordless handsets.You can add new handsets (AT&T model EP590-3, purchased separately) anytime. Up to three handsets can be on a call at the same time.

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Register handset:

Press SELECT/MENU key on the base. Find 'Register Handset' in the main menu. Press SELECT/MENU again.

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Registration

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The handset provided with your telephone sys- tem is automatically registered as Handset 1. Additional handsets will be assigned in numerical order (2, 3, 4, etc.) when they are registered.

Before using a separately purchased handset, it must be registered with the telelphone base. Put the new handset on the telephone base. Press SELECT/MENU, followed by ^DIR once to reach the Register Handset screen. Press SELECT/MENU to confirm.

When the handset has synchronized with the tele- phone base, the screen on the handset will show Registration in progress.

When the handset is successfully registered to the telephone base, the telephone base will generate a confirmation tone. The newly registered handset will be assigned the lowest extension telephone number which has not previously been assigned to another system handset (2-8).

The newly registered handset will sound a confir- mation tone.

NOTE: The maximum number of handsets for use at any time is three, and the possible combinations include:

•Three handsets and the base on an external call.

•Two handsets and the base on an external call, and one handset accessing the answering system.

•One handset and the base are on an external call, and two handsets are on intercom.

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