AT&T feature module 2 system manual Description Considerations HOW to USE, Touch Conference

Conference

DESCRIPTION

CONSIDERATIONS

HOW TO USE

When you want other people to join a call in progress, you can use the Conference feature. You can set up intercom conference calls among people connected to the MERLIN II system, outside conference calls involving only yourself and people outside the system, or a combination of the two. A conference call can include up to two people from outside the MERLIN II system, up to two people who are connected to the MERLIN II system, and yourself, a total of five people.

●People connected to the MERLIN II system can bridge onto an outside line that is active in the conference call, unless one of the participants has activated Privacy.

●You cannot bridge onto a call that already includes three people connected to the MERLIN II system.

●If all participants within the MERLIN 11 system place the call on hold, people on outside lines participating in the conference call can still confer.

●If everyone in a conference call composed of only people connected to the MERLIN II system places the call on hold, the call is automatically terminated.

●If you drop a line that has other people bridged onto it, those people are also disconnected from the conference.

●Under extremely heavy system use of the Conference feature, other people in the system may not be able to initiate a conference call or add more participants to a conference in progress.

To set up a conference call when one of the participants is already on the line.

1Touch Conference.

2Touch a free line button.

3Dial the number.

4Announce the conference call.

If you don’t want the person already connected to the conference to listen while you connect the second person to the call:

1Touch Hold.

2Touch a free line button.

3Dial the number.

4Announce the conference call.

5Touch Conference.

6Touch the line button for the call you put on hold.

To remove yourself from a conference without ending the call:

1Touch Hold.

To rejoin the call:

1Touch a line button associated with the call.

MERLIN II System Features 2-41