Preventing Others from Viewing or Joining a Shared-Line Call

If you share a phone line, you can use the Privacy feature to prevent others who share the line from viewing or barging your calls (adding themselves to calls on the shared lines using the Barge or cBarge feature).

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Prevent others from viewing or

Enable Privacy by pressing the button labeled Private

. When

barging any calls on a shared line

Privacy is on, this icon appears next to the Privacy button

 

and the button illuminates amber

.

 

 

 

 

Allow others to view or barge any

Disable Privacy by pressing the button labeled Private

. When

calls on a shared line

Privacy is off, this icon appears next to the Privacy button

 

and the button appears unlit

.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tips

If the phone that shares your line has Privacy enabled, you can make and receive calls using the shared line as usual. However, you cannot add yourself to existing calls on the shared line, and the barge softkeys will not be available to you.

The Privacy feature applies to all shared lines on your phone. Consequently, if you have multiple shared lines on your phone and Privacy is enabled, coworkers will not be able to view or barge calls on any of your shared lines.

Tracing Suspicious Calls

If you are receiving suspicious or malicious calls, your system administrator can add the Malicious Call Identification (MCID) feature to your phone. This feature enables you to identify an active call as suspicious, which initiates a series of automated tracking and notification messages.

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Notify your system

Press MCID. You will hear a special tone and see the message, “MCID

administrator about a

successful” on your phone. The call remains active until you end the

suspicious or harassing call

call.

 

 

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