Operating Your System
Using Telephone Company Voice Mail
To use your MSG lamp to indi- cate voice mail messages:
1Subscribe to voice mail service from your local Telephone Company.
2Follow the instructions at right to set your voice mail detector to the proper line.
-The MSG lamp will now flash when- ever you have new messages.
To access your voice mail mes- sages:
1Dial the number for your Telephone Company voice mail service. You may wish to store this number in one of your phone’s memory locations for easy access (see page 45).
To turn off the MSG lamp:
If your MSG lamp ever remains flashing even after you have retrieved your mes- sages, you may turn it off manually by fol- lowing the following instructions:
1Press PROGRAM.
- The display will read “Program...”
2Press the soft key under NEXT until “New Call Lamp and VMWI Message” appears in the display.
3Press the soft key under RESET.
If you subscribe to Telephone Company voice mail, the MSG lamp will flash when you have unretrieved messages.
Your telephone comes
To do this, press PROGRAM, then NEXT repeat- edly until you see “Phone Co VMWI” in the dis- play, then press ENTER. The display will read “VMWI: LINE 1.” Press CHANGE if you wish to select LINE 2, LINE 3, LINE 4, or OFF.
Message signals are sent by the Telephone Company in one of two ways: FSK or stutter dial tone. Your telephone comes
If your NEW CALL lamp functions properly, then do not change this setting. However, if your MSG lamp does not flash when you have unretrieved messages, and yet you hear the stutter dial tone when you pick up your handset, first make sure you have followed the above steps to make sure you have set the detector to the line that your voice mail service is on.
If your MSG lamp still does not function proper- ly, then set your detector to STUTTER.
To do this, follow the above steps to set the prop- er line, then press NEXT. The display will read “VMWI: FSK.” Press CHANGE if you wish to select STUTTER. This will activate the stutter dial tone detector.
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