Intercom Ringing Patterns and Dial Tones

If you have an MLS- or MLC-model phone and someone makes an intercom call to your phone, you will hear a ring and a beep (ring BEEP. . . ring BEEP. . .

ring BEEP . . .). If you have a standard phone, you will hear a repeated pattern of two rings (RING ring . . . RING ring . . . RING ring. . .).

When you press [ Intercom ] to make an intercom call, you hear the intercom dial tone that is generated when you use an internal line.

Hands-Free Answer on Intercom (HFAI)

Hands-Free Answer on Intercom is a feature that lets you answer voice-paged calls without lifting the handset or turning on the microphone. HFAI is available on MLS-34D, MLS-12D, and MLS-12 phones; it is not available on MLS-6 or MLC-6 phones because they do not have microphones.

When someone pages your phone, it beeps to indicate that your phone’s speaker has been turned on automatically, and you hear the caller’s voice over your speaker. To use HFAI, leave your phone’s microphone on all the time. Then, you can simply start talking when you hear a caller, to respond without lifting the handset.

NOTES:

1.The HFAI feature can be turned on or off only when your phone is idle. Muting your voice while you are on a call turns off the microphone only for the duration of the call.

2.If you are speaking on a call, you will not hear any other pages to your extension.

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