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TelephoneOperations
Pick up

Pick Up Ring Group

Pick Up Any Ringing Phone

Pick Up Ringing Speaker

Yoursystem administrator can group telephones together into ring groups (also called pickup groups). See
the section entitled Ring groups and Pickup groupson page 11 for details.
Topick up a ringing phone within a ring group from a phone that is not ringing:
1. Pick up any phone or otherwise getan inside line dial tone.
2. Enter the Pick Up Ring Grou p sequence , followed by the single digit re presenting the ring group.
Youwill be connected to the caller ringing the phone.
By factory default, ring group 0 is defined as the group of all extensions except the PAspeaker. This means
that to pick up any ringing phone in your building, you can:
1. Pick up any phone or otherwise getan inside line dial tone.
2. Enter . Youwill be connected to the caller ringing the phone.
Note Check with your system administrator to see how this ring group is defined for your sy stem.
Also by factory default, ringgroup 1 is defined as containing the extension which rings over to the PA sys-
tem. This means that, if you hear a ringing phone over your PAsystem (usually a system is configured so
that this happens for incoming calls when the system is in Night Mode), to answer it, you:
1. Pick up any phone or otherwise getan inside line dial tone.
2. Enter . Youwill be connected to the caller ringing the phone.
Note Check with your system administrator to see how this ring group is defined for your sy stem.
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