Lucent Technologies 4.1 User Manual

Standard phones have two different dial tones:

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Outside dial tone is generated by your local telephone company to
indicate that you are connected with an outside line.

Intercom dial tone is generated by the system to indicate that you are
connected with an inside line. You hear this dial tone when you are
making an inside, or intercom, call.

To hear the difference between the two dial tones, lift the handset. The dial tone
you hear (assuming the phone is set to select intercom first, as recommended in
this guide) is an intercom dial tone. To hear an outside dial tone, press [

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Some of the call handling instructions in Chapter 5 direct you to “rapidly press
and release the switchhook.” Pressing the switchhook for 1/4 to 1 second
sends a signal over the line called a switchhook flash. However, do not press
the switchhook too quickly. If you press the switchhook and nothing happens,
try again and press it a little longer.

If your feature phone has a button labeled “Recall” or “Flash,” use the button
instead of pressing the switchhook. If you use the system with PBX or Centrex
lines, your PBX or Centrex documentation may tell you to press the switchhook
to access features. Use the Recall feature instead (See “Recall” in Chapter 5).

Each standard device requires one touchtone receiver to be available in order
to dial a call (intercom or outside). Each 206 module has one touchtone
receiver; each 400 module has two touchtone receivers. The combination of
modules in your system determines the number of standard devices that can
dial simultaneously. For example, if you have two 206 modules and two 400
modules, six standard devices can dial out at the same time. If seven standard
devices try to dial out simultaneously, the seventh device will not get dial tone
until one of the other six finishes dialing.

Also, because standard phones do not have system line or pool buttons, feature
buttons, or dedicated function buttons, basic call handling procedures are
sometimes different from those for system phones. In addition, the following
actions cannot be performed at a standard phone:

Learning About Telephones

You cannot enter programming mode.

Unless Call Waiting (#316) is assigned to specific standard phone
extensions, there is no indication of a second call and an inside caller will
hear a busy tone if a standard phone is in use. If Call Waiting is
assigned, the user hears a call waiting tone (two beeps) when a second
call comes in to the extension. (The call waiting tone is not repeated.)
The user can use the switchhook to put the first call on hold and speak to
the party on the second call and to switch back and forth between the
two parties.