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Centrex operation

Setup checklist

Before expanding your system or installing for Centrex, review the System
planner on page 4. If you have Centrex, contact your local telephone
company for further information about Centrex service.
• The phone number for Line 1 must be the same on all phones in order
for the intercom and paging features to work.
• Identify the phone that you will use as the console phone.
• Follow the regular installation instructions in this manual.
• Enable the console phone.
• Store the Centrex pickup codes and the seven- or ten-digit phone num-
bers, as directed by your phone company, in the one-touch locations.
(See One touch beginning on page 30.)

Enable the console phone

Determine which phone is the console phone for your system and program
the console following the directions to CONSOLE section on page 74.
Console operation
Once another system phone has enabled its delayed ring, the console phone
will receive those calls. All the phone features work in the same manner as
described in this manual.
The console phone can pick up other Centrex lines through Centrex switching.
You can store the Centrex pickup codes and the seven- or ten-digit phone
number (as directed by your phone company) of each station, except for the
console phone, in the one-touch locations.