AT&T 2.1.1 manual FAX Attendant Services, FAX Attendant Features

FAX Attendant interfaces with a local telephone system and processes fax messages and controls announcements that are stored on disk memory. FAX Attendant prompts internal and external callers to make menu choices by pressing the appropriate touch-tone button.

FAX Attendant Services

FAX Attendant includes the following services:

Fax Call Answer

Fax Call Answer allows FAX Attendant to receive fax messages for subscribers whose fax machines are busy or out of paper. This feature also enables subscribers to use personal fax mailboxes for confidential receipt and remote access to fax messages.

Fax Mail

Fax Mail allows subscribers to send fax messages to one or more fax numbers or use a distribution list, retrieve fax messages from their mailbox, record personal greetings, change their account passwords, delivery report setting, and autoprint setting, administer outcalling, and create fax distribution lists.

Fax Response

Fax Response allows you to dedicate a phone number for your prospective customers to call and retrieve information on your products or services, news or virtually any other hard copy information. Fax Response directs callers through a series of prompts to retrieve information on their fax machines. Callers are greeted with spoken prompts that guide them in pressing touch-tone buttons to access the information. No more requesting information and waiting for it to arrive in the mail. Fax Response allows interested parties to get their information immediately by fax.

FAX Attendant Features

FAX Attendant includes the following features:

Broadcast feature

FAX Attendant can broadcast a single fax to up to 1,000 locations. Using the Fax Mail service, a subscriber enters numbers or distribution list numbers, then presses Start on the fax machine. FAX Attendant stores the fax message in memory and sends it using the fax ports administered to distribute fax messages.

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