88 Answering the telephone
You are receiving a Priority Call. If you
are on another call, inform the person
you are, speaking to that the call is
about to be put on hold. Press the
flashing line indicator of the Priority
Call or
wait till the call connects
automatically (in eight seconds).
T h e P r i o r i t y C a l l g o e s t h r o u g h w h e n
you hear the next beep.
Your active call is placed on Exclusive
Hold. It will be reconnected
automatically when the priority call
ends (unless you transfer the Priority
‘Call, in which case you must press the
line button of your original call to
reconnect).
To reject a Priority Call, use
or press
You have no free line buttons on
which to receive a call. Release one of
your current calls and
again to
a n s w e r t h e i n c o m i n g c a l l .
Y o u h a v e r e c e i v e d a R i n g A g a i n o f f e r
for a line pool. To use the line pool,
or the flashing internal line
button.. On the
Telephone, just
lift the receiver. Otherwise, press
or
wait 30 seconds
for the
Ring Again
offer to expire. For an explanation of
Ring Again, see Dialing.
Prime telephone displays
If yours is a Prime
you may see the following displays:
T h e p e r s o n a t t e l e p h o n e 2 2 1 h a s
forwarded a call to you using Do Not
Disturb.
The system has transferred a call to
you from a telephone in Do Not
D i s t u r b m o d e .
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Notes
T h e r e a r e t h r e e i n d i c a t i o n s o f a n i n c o m i n g c a l l : r i n g i n g , a l i n e -
button flashing, and a message on the display. You will not
necessarily receive all three indications for any particular call.
You may have a line that has been set up not to ring at your
telephone. if so, you will see only a flashing line button. If there is
no button
for a camped call to appear: you will get a special
ring and a message on your display, but no line button will flash.
If someone makes a voice call to you, you will hear a beep
followed by their voice. There are many possible combinations,
depending on how your system is set up. See Lines in the
System features section for more information on the use of lines.
Nobody answered this call so the
system transferred it to you.
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Someone has camped, parked or
transferred a call on line 001
but no
one has
it. Press the
button or the line button to
connect to the call.
T h e r e i s n o t e l e p h o n e t h a t c a n
a call on line
so the System has
transferred it to you.
The call coming in on line 015 was
intended for target line
Line 087
is busy so the call has come to you.
There are many ways to answer a call. Many of them depend@
settings in Administration programming. Depending on
settings and the type of call you are receiving, you may be
to answer a call by: picking up the receiver, picking up the
pressing a line button, pressing
and pressing a line button, pressing a line button, or
If you receive a Priority Call and your telephone has no free
internal line buttons, you cannot transfer the call or do anything
else with it, except release it.
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