AT&T EP5995 Cordless Telephone User Manual


 
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Telephone Operation
Basic base operation
Mute
Press
MUTE to silence the microphone and the
screen will show Microphone Muted. The icon
MUTE will also be shown while the call is muted.
You will be able to hear, but your caller will not
be able to hear you until you press
MUTE again to
resume the conversation.
Hold
Press HOLD/PAUSE to place a call on hold. Press
SPEAKER to resume the call. Placing a call on
hold cancels the
MUTE feature.
When a call is put on hold, the IN USE light on the
telephone base flashes slowly and the status light
at the top left corner of the cordless handsets will
also flash.
You can send an external call to one of the cord-
less handsets registered for use with the system.
• Press HOLD/PAUSE to put the call on hold.
• Press INTERCOM to enter the Intercom menu.
Select from the list of destinations: Global page,
or one of the registered handsets. Press ^DIR
or VCID to highlight the destination handset.
Press SELECT/MENU to confirm.
When the destination handset starts to ring,
press /PHONE/FLASH or /SPEAKER on the
destination handset to pick up the intercom
call.
• Press /SPEAKER on the telephone base to
terminate the intercom call, then the destina-
tion handset can go off-hook to pick up the
call on hold to start the conversation.
MUTE
INTERCOM
Caution: If a handset
does not answer the inter-
com call in one minute, the
intercom ring stops and the
call remains on hold until it
times out in fifteen minutes.
Caution: If the call
is not resumed in fifteen
minutes the set will ring.
The display will show CALL
ON HOLD RING BACK!.
If the RING BACK is not
answered in 30 seconds,
the call will end.
NOTE: Any digits
currently in the display will
be dialed when Hold is
released.
HOLD/PAUSE