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3. Dial the phone number.
To make an outside call using a specific pool:
1. Press the idle pool button (red and green lights are both off) or dial
i
plus the three-digit pool access code (880, 881, 882, or 883).
2. If desired, lift the handset.
3. Dial the phone number.
To reserve a busy line or pool so your phone beeps when the line or pool becomes
free—this is useful when you share a line, such as a WATS line, with other people:
1. Press the busy line or pool button (red light is on steady) without lifting the
handset or pressing
S.
2. When the line is free and your phone beeps, lift the handset and dial the
number. (If more than one person reserves a line, all their phones beep
when the line is free. The first person to pick up the phone after the beep
gets the line, and the other reservations are canceled.)
Standard Phone
1. Lift the handset.
You hear intercom dial tone
.
2. Dial
9 to get an outside line.
You hear outside line dial tone.
3. Dial the phone number. (If you are using a PBX or Centrex line, you also
may need to use a dial-out code (usually 9) before you dial a number
outside the PBX or Centrex system.)
To make an outside call on a specific line:
1. Lift the handset.
You hear intercom dial tone.
2. Dial 8 plus the two-digit line number.
3. Dial the phone number.
To make an outside call using a specific pool:
1. Lift the handset.
You hear intercom dial tone.
2. Dial the three-digit pool access code (880, 881, 882, or 883).
3. Dial the phone number.
How to Make an Intercom Call
An intercom call, or inside call, is a call between two extensions without using an
outside line. There are two ways you can signal the extension you are calling: by
ringing or by voice.