Feature setup

Feature summary (continued)

 

FEATURE

SYSTEM

OPTIONS

 

ANNOUNCEMENT

 

Announcement

“Announcement

monitor

monitor is...”

When this feature is on, the answering machine broadcasts your outgoing announcement when answering a call. When the feature is off, your outgoing announcement is not broadcast from the answering machine, but callers will hear the announcement.

NOTE: You must set the volume to an audible level to use this feature.

Number

“Number announce

announce

is...”

When this feature is on, the system announces the incoming telephone number.

NOTE: For this feature to work, you must subscribe to caller ID service from your telephone service provider. There may be a fee for this service, and it may not be available in all areas.

Store caller “Store caller number

number is...”

When this feature is on, the system announces the incoming telephone number when it plays back a message.

NOTE: For this feature to work, you must subscribe to caller ID service from your telephone service provider. There may be a fee for this service, and it may not be available in all areas.

Accept blocked

“Accept blocked

calls

calls is...”

When this feature is on, the system answers and records messages from any caller.

When this feature is off, the system responds to blocked calls with the announcement, ”We’re sorry. Blocked calls to this number cannot be accepted,” and hangs up without recording a message.

NOTES:

Blocked calls can arrive from callers who have chosen to block their numbers from identification.

For this feature to work, you must subscribe to caller ID service from your telephone service provider. There may be a fee for this service, and it may not be available in all areas.

Audible message “Message alert is...”

• When this feature is on, the system beeps

alert

every 15 seconds when there are new

 

messages.

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