Muting The Handset; Deactivating Your Handset's Microphone; Making Cost-Effective Calls - Siemens Gigaset A580 User Manual

Muting the handset

You can deactivate the microphone in your handset during an external call. The
other party will hear music on hold, if activated (
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Deactivating your handset's microphone

You can deactivate your handset's microphone during an external call (includ-
ing during a conference or when toggling). The other party can no longer hear
you, but you can still hear them.
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§On§
Please note
Under the following circumstances, the microphone is automatically reacti-
vated:
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If, during an external call (you have deactivated the microphone), you
establish a second connection, either by accepting a waiting call or by suc-
cessfully connecting to an external/internal consultation call, the micro-
phone is activated. If you go back to the first party, the microphone remains
activated.
(If you reject a waiting call or are unable to connect to a consultation call,
the microphone remains deactivated.)
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If you have deactivated the microphone during call swapping, it is reacti-
vated for both connections as soon as you swap to the other party.
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If you have deactivated the microphone during a conference call, the micro-
phone is reactivated when you end the conference call by pressing
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End Conference

Making cost-effective calls

You can use your phone's cost control function for calls to fixed line or mobile
phone networks. Open accounts with various VoIP providers who offer favora-
ble rates for calls to other networks. In the phone configuration, define the
most cost-effective VoIP connections (account), e.g. for specific regional,
national and cellular network prefixes, to be used when calls are made
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Plans,
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If you are using your fixed line network to make a call, choose a network pro-
vider that offers particularly favorable rates (call-by-call).
Press the Display key to mute the handset.
Press the Display or the End Call key, to reactivate the microphone.
Press the Display key to mute the handset.
Your handset's microphone is deactivated.
off." appears in the display.
Press the Display key to switch the microphone back on.
(call swap).
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dialing with line suffix,
Making calls with VoIP and the fixed line network
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