Lucent Technologies 518-458-100 manual Using Telephones, Basic Call Handling Features

Learning about Telephones

■The lights on the system phone show what the standard telephone is doing as well as what the system phone is doing. For an explanation of light patterns, see ‘‘Lights’’ on page 3-3.

■If Privacy is active at a combination extension, no other extension can join a call in progress at either a system phone or a standard device. (However, a phone can interrupt a call on a standard device at the same extension.

For example, if a system phone and modem are combined at an extension, picking up the handset of the system phone could interrupt a modem transmission, even if Privacy is active.)

■While on a call on a standard phone, you can use the system phone’s dialpad and fixed-feature buttons to handle calls. For example, you can use the system phone to select a specific outside line or pool, and conduct the call on the standard phone. Or, if someone is on a call using the standard phone, someone else can put that call on hold by pressing hon the system phone. To do this, it is not necessary to lift the handset of the system phone. Held calls do not ring back at a standard phone in a combination extension. To retrieve a held call from the standard phone, use

Direct Line Pickup—Active Line.

■A standard phone’s message light will not light when Background Music is playing through the system phone’s speaker.

■If you have Caller ID, only system display phones show the Caller ID information.

■The ringer equivalence number (REN) of a standard device or the combined REN of two devices cannot be greater than 2.0. (The REN of a system phone is 0.0.)

Using Telephones

Your system provides intuitive operation of basic call handling features, plus dial-code features that make it easy for users to handle calls flexibly and efficiently from both system and standard phones. For more information about a specific feature, refer to the feature name in Chapter 5.

Basic Call Handling Features

The following features are available from both system and standard phones:

■Making Calls

■Answering Calls

■Hold

■Call Park

■Transferring Calls

■Conference Calls

■Joining Calls

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