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Answering system
About the answering system
Answering system and voicemail
Your telephone has both a digital answering
system and voicemail indication. Voicemail is
offered by your telephone service provider (fees
may apply). Your telephone’s answering system
and voicemail indication are independent features.
Each alerts you to new messages differently. For
more information on the voicemail indicators, see
page 19. To listen to your voicemail, you typically
dial an access number provided by your telephone
company, followed by a security code or PIN.
To listen to messages recorded on your digital
answering system, press
PLAY/STOP button on
the telephone base.
If you subscribe to caller ID/call waiting service
through your telephone service provider, you
can use your telephone answering system and
voicemail together. Set your answering system to
answer calls at least two rings earlier than your
voicemail is set to answer. For example, set your
voicemail to answer calls after six rings and set
you answering system to answer after four rings.
Some voicemail providers may program the delay
before answering calls in seconds instead of
rings; in this case allow six seconds per ring when
determining the appropriate setting. By doing this,
if you are on a call, or if the answering system is
busy recording a message and you receive another
call, the second caller can leave a voicemail
message.