46 CHAPTER 5: STANDARD FEATURES
Establishing a
Conference Call
You can establish a Conference Call with up to four parties, including
yourself. The other three parties can be any combination of internal and
external calls.
To set up a conference call:
From an NBX Business Telephone:
1 Dial a call, or receive a call from someone else.
2 While on the call, press Conference button. The system selects a new
line and places the first party on hold.
3 Dial a call to a third party, wait for that party to answer the call. Press
Conference button again.
Until you press Conference button a second time, the first party is on
hold, and you may converse with the second party privately.
4 Repeat steps 1 and 2 to conference in a fourth party.
To use your speaker phone during the conference call, press the Speaker
button. Press the Mute button to turn off the microphone. The other
parties cannot hear you, but you can hear them. For details about the
Speaker and Mute features, see “Telephone Buttons and Controls
” in
Chapter 2
.
From an NBX Basic Telephone:
1 Dial a call, or receive a call from someone else.
2 While on the call, press Feature button and 430. The existing call is
placed on hold, and the icon corresponding to that line begins to blink on
the display.
3 You hear a dial tone, and the icon corresponding to the second line is
solid on the display.
4 Dial a call to another party, wait for that party to answer the call, press
Feature button and 430 again. All three parties are now in the
conference call.