
BT In Touch 2000 User Phone will continue to dial the next emergency contact number.
Someone else is using the
telephone line in the User’s home in
the event of an emergency
If the User presses the Emergency button (phone or Pendant) but another person is already using the telephone line, the BT In Touch 2000 User Phone will announce over the loudspeaker and down the telephone line “Emergency call. Please hang up now”.
The BT In Touch 2000 User Phone will then wait a few seconds and attempt to start the emergency sequence. If the person on the telephone line has failed to hang up, the BT In Touch 2000 User Phone will replay the message “Emergency call. Please hang up now”.
The BT In Touch 2000 User Phone will continue to do this until the telephone line is clear and the emergency sequence has begun.
What happens when the emergency
call is taken by a fax, answer
machine, a busy tone or someone receives the call but does not know the
If an emergency call sequence begins and the call is
What happens when I return home
to a missed emergency call?
If you have missed an emergency call, then the emergency light on your BT In Touch 2000c Carer Phone will be flashing and beeping.
You may wish to ring round the other Carer contact numbers to establish who took control of the emergency - the BT In Touch 2000 User Phone would have continued the emergency sequence until the emergency code (555) was entered.
If
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