How Does FaxAbility Work?

Your telephone number will have the standard ring pattern of long, long tone, while the new number will have a ring pattern of long, silence, long, etc. When FaxAbility is On, you will not hear the first ring of all incoming calls on the fax machine. Extension phones will ring as usual. If the fax machine recognizes the ring pattern, all ringing will stop and the fax machine will answer and automatically receive the fax message. Otherwise, you will hear the extension phones and the fax machine continue to ring. The fax machine always listens to the ring pattern before it answers, so do not pick up the phone during that time. You will quickly learn to recognize the ring pattern for faxes, so you will not be tempted to answer that number. Either you or a telephone answering device can answer the main number(s).

Flowchart Sequence of Incoming call

Incoming Call

(either Voice or Fax)

All extension phones ring twice, fax machine is silent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Registered

 

 

 

Main number

Duet (Fax)

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Voice Number)

Number

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fax machine

 

 

Fax machine

 

 

automatically

 

 

begins ringing

 

 

receives and prints

 

 

on third ring.

 

 

fax message

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

without ringing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You answer the call

 

 

Telephone Answering

 

at an external phone

 

 

Device (TAD)

 

or an extension

 

 

 

answers the call.

 

phone or at the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

machine's handset.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note

After you have set the FaxAbility feature to On, the receive mode is set to Manual automatically. Unless you have a TAD or Voice Mail set up on the FaxAbility number, Manual mode means you must answer all the call yourself. You can not change the receive mode to the other mode while the FaxAbility is set to On.

Telephone and External devices

How to Turn FaxAbility OFF or ON

The FaxAbility function is designed to accommodate the FaxAbility service provided by Telecom. To change the setting, repeat steps a-c; Step b is where you can choose either On or Off.

Call Waiting beeps caused by incoming calls on your main number can affect fax transmissions. If you have FaxAbility Service but don’t have Call Waiting, you need do nothing at this stage. If you do have Call Waiting as well as FaxAbility, set the Call Waiting menu option to On. See below.

a Press Menu, 2, 0, 3.

Miscellaneous 3.Faxability

b Press a or b to set FaxAbility to On (or

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Off).

If you have FaxAbility service, choose

On.

Press OK.

c Press a or b to choose Call Waiting to On (or Off).

If you have Call Waiting service, choose On to avoid the trouble caused by Call Waiting.

Press OK.

d Press Stop/Exit.

Caller ID

Caller ID is a telephone service that allows the subscriber to see a display of the caller’s phone number and name if available as the telephone rings. It is a fast way to screen your calls. You can respond quickly to calls you missed, because Caller IDs are received and stored in your machine memory.

Note

To get the Caller ID Service, apply for the Caller ID service at your local telephone company, if available.

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