indicate that you are dialing a VoIP call, your calls will be routed and billed as if you didn’t have VoIP, through your regular telephone service.
Note: In the event of a power failure, the X5v routes all calls as conventional calls.
Additional Features
Distinctive Ring and Dial Tone: The X5v’s ring and dial tone sound different from your traditional phone service. This means that you can easily tell by the ring that you are receiving a VoIP call. Perhaps more important, when you dial # to make a VoIP call, you will hear a different dial tone than you hear on the public phone network so that you can be sure you are making a VoIP call.
Speed dialing: You may program your phone to
#.
Redial: You may redial a VoIP number just as you would redial any other number, using a redial feature on your handset.
Hook Flash: If you receive a second VoIP call while already engaged in a VoIP call, you will hear a call waiting tone. Momentarily press the hook button on your phone to talk to the second caller, and press it again to go back to your first conversation. After you have completed a VoIP call, you can press the hook button to get a fresh VoIP dial tone and make another VoIP call without dialing #
Note that redial or speed dialing will not work in this case, however. You must hang up for at least one second if you need to make a conventional phone call.
VoIP only Mode: If you want to make only VoIP calls, you can set the X5v to VoIP only Mode. All calls that you make from the phone attached to the X5v will be VoIP calls so you do not have to dial # to make a call. Note: If you have unbundled DSL (DSL without PSTN), you must use VoIP only Mode. For additional information about this feature and how to use it, see Voice over IP options on page 36.
VoIP only Mode with PSTN: If you want to make only VoIP calls, but still receive PSTN calls from the phone plugged into the
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