Starting and Joining a Standard Conference

A standard conference allows at least three people to participate in a single call. See the table below for details.

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Start a standard conference

During a connected call, press Confrn to add another party to the

call by calling participants

call. (You may need to press the more softkey to see Confrn.) Enter

 

the conference participant’s phone number. After the call connects

 

and you have spoken to the conference participant, press Confrn

 

again to add this party to your call. Repeat to add additional partic-

 

ipants.

 

 

Invite current callers to join a

With two or more calls on a single line, scroll to highlight any call

standard conference

on the line and press Select. Repeat this process for each call you

 

want to add to the conference. From one of the selected calls, press

 

Join. (You may need to press the more softkey to see Join.) Note that

 

the active call is selected and added to the conference automatically.

 

 

Participate in a standard con-

Answer the phone when it rings. You do not need to do anything

ference

special to participate in a standard conference call.

 

 

Barge (add yourself to) a call

Highlight a remote-in-use call on a shared line and press cBarge.

on a shared line and turn the

(You may need to press the more softkey to display cBarge.) Other

call into a standard confer-

parties on the call will hear a barge tone. See the “Using a Shared

ence call

Line” section on page 31 for details.

 

 

View a list of conference par-

Highlight an active conference, and press ConfList. Participants are

ticipants

listed in the order in which they join the conference with the most

 

recent additions at the top.

 

 

Get an updated list of confer-

While viewing the conference list, press Update.

ence participants

 

 

 

See who started the confer-

While viewing the conference list, locate the person listed at the

ence

bottom of the list with an asterisk (*) next to the name.

 

 

Drop the last party added to

Highlight the participant’s name at the top of the conference list and

the conference

press Remove. (The last participant is always listed at the top of the

 

list.) Or, when not viewing the conference list, press RmLstC. You

 

can remove participants only if you initiated the conference call.

 

 

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