Telephone features

Hold -

FEATURE 79 or FEATURE/HOLD

 

Exclusive

Temporarily suspend a call and prevent other telephones from picking it up.

 

 

 

Hold - Auto

FEATURE 73

Cancel: FEATURE #73

Set your telephone to automatically put a call on Hold when you pick up a second call, or prevent your telephone from doing so. Default is Yes (feature is on).

Note: Telephones that have SWCA buttons must have this feature active (set to Yes).

Language choice

FEATURE *501: Select Primary Language for the telephone display.

FEATURE *502: Select Alternate Language for the telephone display.

FEATURE *503: Select Alternate Language 2 for the telephone display.

FEATURE *504: Select Alternate Language 3 for the telephone display.

Last Number

FEATURE 5

 

Redial

Automatically redial the last external telephone number that you dialed.

 

 

 

Line pools

FEATURE 64

 

 

With a line pool, telephones can share several lines for making calls.

 

1. Press FEATURE 64 or an intercom button.

 

2. Enter a line pool access code. (See your System Administrator for a list.)

 

Variances

 

 

* (no intercom buttons)

 

 

 

 

Line

FEATURE 84

Cancel: FEATURE #84

redirection

Send calls arriving on an external line to another telephone outside your

 

system. (Some external lines do not support this feature. See your System

 

Administrator.)

 

 

Variances

 

 

* (not available)

 

 

 

 

Link

FEATURE 71

 

 

Generate a Link signal to access a PBX or other host exchange.

 

 

 

Long Tones

FEATURE 808

 

 

Generate a tone for as long as you hold down a button. This is used to

communicate with devices such as fax or answering machines. Long tones are only in effect for your current call.

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Nortel Networks BCM 4.0 manual Hold Feature 79 or FEATURE/HOLD Exclusive, Hold Auto, Cancel Feature #73, Language choice

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