ADVANCED OPERATION

CALLER ID/CALL WAITING ID

NOTE: Caller ID and Call Waiting ID are subscription services, provided by your regional phone company. You must subscribe to these services in order to benefit from the Caller ID features of your VT 9162. Contact your regional phone service provider for details.

RECEIVING AND STORING CALLS

As new Caller ID/Call Waiting ID records are received, NEW followed by the number of new Caller ID records received will be displayed on the Handset.

Your VT 9162 will store the most current 50 Caller

ID and Call Waiting ID records. To review Caller ID

records, press

while the Handset is in the idle mode.

Keep pressing

to scroll through more records.

ABOUT CALL HISTORY

This phone assigns each incoming call a number from 1 to 50. The most recent call will have the highest number.When the memory is full, the oldest call information is deleted to make room for new incoming call information.

For each call that comes in, the screen displays the following information between the first and second rings:

Your caller’s name (15 letters are sent by your telephone company);

The caller’s area code and telephone number;

The time and date of the call; and

The position of the call in call history.

If you answer a call before the information appears on the screen, it will not be in the call history.

Note: Press OFF at any time to exit Caller ID review mode.

REVIEW CALLER ID

The screen displays call information for about 15 seconds after it has been received.

1.

Press

(CID) to view Caller ID.

2.

Use

and

to scroll through records in call history.

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VTech VT 9162 Caller ID/CALL Waiting ID, Receiving and Storing Calls, About Call History, Review Caller ID