Industry Standard Telephone User’s Guide
September, 02 Comdial 13
7. CONFERENCING STATIONS
• To conference between yourself, one outside party, and one
intercom party, or between yourself and two intercom
parties
1. Answer or make a call.
2. FLASH the hookswitch (this places the call on hold),
3. Dial intercom number of station.
4. When the party answers, have a conversation with that party
(consultation hold), or announce that you are forming a confer
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ence with the first party (three-way conference).
5. FLASH the hookswitch once to establish the three-way con-
nection,
—OR—
FLASH the hookswitch twice to drop the consulting party and
return to the first party to complete conversation.
6. Hang up handset to end calls.
• To conference between yourself and two outside parties:
1. Answer or make a call on an outside line.
2. FLASH the hookswitch (this places the call on hold),
3. Make a second outside line call.
4. When the party answers, have a conversation with that party
(consultation hold), or announce that you are forming a confer
-
ence with the first party (three-way conference).
5. FLASH the hookswitch once to establish the three-way con-
nection.
6. Hang up the handset to end the calls.
)Flashing the hookswitch during a line-to-line conference is
not allowed once the conference is established.