Telephone settings

Handset settings

Home area code

If you dial 7 digits to make a local call (no area code required), enter your area code into the telephone as home area code. When you receive a call from within your home area code, the caller ID history only displays the 7 digits of the telephone number.

This feature makes it easy for you to make a call from the caller ID history. If you dial 10 digits to make a local call, do not use this home area code feature. If you do, you will not be able to place calls from your caller ID history because they have only 7 digits.

1.Press menu/select in idle mode to enter the main menu.

2.Press CID or DIR to scroll to >Settings, then press menu/select.

3.Press CID or DIR to scroll to >Home area code, then press menu/select.

4.Use the dialing keys to enter your 3-digit area code. Press mute/delete to erase digits while entering.

5.Press menu/select to save the setting.

>HOME AREA CODE DIAL MODE

HOME AREA CODE

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note: If, in the future, your telephone service provider requires you to dial 10 digits to make a local call (area code + telephone number), you need to delete your home area code. While the home area code is displaying in Step 4 above, press and hold mute/delete. The home area code is now restored to its default setting of _ _ _(empty).

Dial mode

The dial mode is preset to tone dialing. If you have pulse (rotary) service, you must change the dial mode to pulse dialing before using the telephone.

1.Press menu/select in the idle mode to enter the main menu.

2.Press CID or DIR to scroll to >Settings, then press menu/select.

3.Press CID or DIR to scroll to >Dial mode, then press menu/select.

4.Press CID or DIR to choose between >Tone and >Pulse.

5.Press menu/select to save the setting.

HOME AREA CODE >DIAL MODE

DIAL MODE >TONE

note: If you have dial pulse (rotary) dialing service only, refer to Temporary tone dialing on page 21 to temporarily switch from dial pulse to touch-tone dialing during a call.

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AT&T EL52501 user manual Home area code, Dial mode