7. Making and Receiving Calls
You can continue to use the telephone handset connected to the DPH-50U VoIP USB Phone Adapter to make and receive standard telephone calls as you used without any change. To make a standard phone call, just pick up the handset and dial as you normally would. To answer (receive) a standard phone call just pick up the handset when the phone rings.
When you receive an incoming Skype™ call, the handset connected to the DP-50U will ring. If you handset supports Alphanumeric Caller ID, then the Skype username will be displayed on the handset’s screen where the standard caller ID information is displayed. To answer the call, just pick up the handset and speak as you normally would. To end the call, simply hang up the handset as you normally would.
If you have SkypeOut™, you can use the DPH-50U connected handset to make SkypeOut™ calls by picking up the handset, pressing ##, to indicate to the DPH-50U that this is not a standard call but a Skype call, dialing as per the SkypeOut™ recommended dialing sequence, 00 + country code + telephone number (e.g. 001 617 555 1212) and pressing the asterisk (*) key.
In order to make a call to a Skype™ contact, you will need to use the Skype™ program to assign a speed dial (as described in the next section) to each person you would like to call from the DPH-50U connected handset. Then simply pick up the handset, press ##, to indicate to the DPH-50U that this is not a standard call but a Skype call, you will hear a new dial-tone, press the speed dial number (e.g. 22) and then press the asterisk (*) key.
7.1 Setting Up Skype Speed Dial
This section describes how to setup speed dials in Skype™. This is required in order to use a DPH-50U connected handset to dial to a Skype™ contact. It is not required for making SkypeOut™ calls using a DPH-50U connected handset.
