Toshiba Strata CT manual Optional Add More Callers to a Conference or Tandem Call

Conference and Tandem Calls Features

5.If you are ringing an internal party, flash the hookswitch or press your recall button after the party answers

...or if you are ringing an outside line, you can flash the hookswitch or press your recall button before or after the party answers.

All parties are conferenced.

If only your telephone is connected with two parties on external Exchange lines, you can exit the conference by hookflashing or pressing recall again before you hang up. (See “(Optional) Add More Callers to a Conference or Tandem Call” on Page 20.) The external lines remain connected.

While a conference is being set up, all outside parties are held separately and cannot converse with each other.

Step 2: (Optional) Add More Callers to a Conference or Tandem Call

➤For Conference calls: repeat substeps 1~4 of Step 1: “Make a Conference Call or Tandem Two Exchange Lines” to add another party to the conference.

...or for Tandem calls: hookflash or press recall again and hang up.

If one of the stations hangs up on a two-station/two Exchange line conference call, the remaining station maintains the conference.

If only your telephone is connected with two parties on external Exchange lines, you can exit the call to allow the two external parties to continue talking.

Step 3: (Optional) Pick Up a Tandem Exchange Line Call

Note This step enables you to pick up a tandem Exchange-to-Exchange line call that was established from your telephone.

➤Go off-hook and dial

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If your telephone has established more than one tandem call, the call with the lowest line number is picked up.

20 Strata CT Standard Telephone User Guide November 2001