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Adding Yourself to a Shared-Line Call
If you share a phone line, your system administrator might provide you with Barge or cBarge. You can
use either feature to add yourself to an active call on your shared line. Typically, only one of these
features will be configured for you.
Tips
• Barge and cBarge softkeys are not available for private calls.
• You cannot barge an encrypted call if the phone you are using is not configured for encryption.
When your barge attempt fails for this reason, your phone plays a fast busy tone. See the “Making
and Receiving Secure Calls” section on page 32.
• You will be disconnected from a call that you have joined using Barge if the call is put on hold,
transferred, or turned into a conference call.
If you want to... Then...
See if a co-worker has
an active call on the
shared line
Look at the shared line number. When the line is in use from another
phone, the remote-in-use icon appears: .
If your co-worker has Privacy enabled, the Barge and cBarge softkeys are
not available and you cannot barge the call. In this case, you cannot view
information for the private call on your phone screen; however, you can
still use the shared line to place and receive new calls.
View current calls on
the shared line
Press for the shared line in use. All non-private calls appear on the call
activity area.
Add yourself to a call
on a shared line using
the Barge softkey
Highlight a remote-in-use call on your phone screen and press Barge. (You
may need to press the more softkey to display Barge.) Other parties hear a
beep tone announcing your presence.
When you hang up, the remaining parties hear a disconnect tone and the
original call continues.
Add yourself to a call
on a shared line using
the cBarge softkey
Highlight a remote-in-use call on your phone screen and press cBarge. (You
may need to press the more softkey to display cBarge.) Other parties hear
a tone and brief audio interruption, and call information changes on the
phone screen.
Note that, unlike Barge, cBarge converts the call into a standard conference
call, allowing you to add new conference participants to the call. (To learn
more about conference features that you can use with cBarge, see the
“Making Conference Calls” section on page 24.)
When you hang up, the call remains a conference call (provided at least
three participants remain on the line).