Call Screening At The Handset; Call Intercept; Message Playback - VTech CS6428-2 User Manual

Answering system operation

Call screening at the handset

If the answering system is on, the announcement and the incoming message
broadcast at the telephone base when a call is answered by the answering system.
At the same time, the handset shows TO SCREEN CALL, PRESS [SELECT].
/SELECT to screen the call on your handset. The handset shows
Press
MENU
the caller's information. If you do not subscribe to caller ID service, the handset
shows SCREENING...
Call screening setting has no effect on the call screening at the handset. Call screening setting has no effect on the call screening at the handset.

Call intercept

While call screening, you can press
recording and speak to the caller.

Message playback

You can use either a handset or the telephone base to play messages. If there are
new messages, the system plays back only the new messages (oldest first). If there
are no new messages, the system plays back all old messages (oldest first).
When playback begins, the total number of messages is announced. Before
each message playback, you hear the day and time it was received. After the last
message is played, you hear "End of messages."
• • Only one handset or the telephone base can access the answering system at Only one handset or the telephone base can access the answering system at
a time. a time.
• • During message playback, if there is an incoming call or another handset During message playback, if there is an incoming call or another handset
makes a call, message playback will be stopped. makes a call, message playback will be stopped.
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or on the handset to stop
FLASH
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