Phone

Hold INT

Intercom

Telephone Operation

Options while on calls

Temporary tone dialing

If you have dial pulse (rotary) service, you can switch to touch tone dialing during a call by pressing *.This can be useful if you need to send tone signals for access to answering systems or long-distance services.

After you hang up or press PHONE/FLASH to access services with your local telephone service provider, the phone automatically returns to dial pulse (rotary) ser- vice.

3-way conference calls

During a call, someone at the base or another handset can join in the conversation.

On the cordless handset: Press PHONE/FLASH to join a conversation begun at the base.

At the base: Lift the handset (or press SPEAKER) to join a conversation begun at the cordless handset.

You can also page the other parts of the system and ask another user to join the call.

From a cordless handset: Press HOLD, then press

INTERCOM/DELETE.

From the telephone base: Press HOLD, then press

INTERCOM/CID DEL.

Anyone at a cordless handset or telephone base can Hold either join the call, (by pressing PHONE/FLASH or

SPEAKER,) or talk to you first, (by answering the page), and then decide whether to join the call.When another user joins the call, the intercom call is termi- nated.

Speaker

NOTE: Only one cordless handset and the base can be on a confer- ence call. If one cordless handset is on a call and the other cordless handset attempts to join the call, its screen will display OTHER HANDSET ON and then OR OUT OF RANGE.

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