Choose Answering Machine Or Voicemail; Register Additional Handsets - ClearSounds A1600 User Manual

Choose answering machine or voicemail

Before you set up and personalize your new phone,
you must decide how you will store messages. You
must choose one method as a primary message
retrieval method: answering machine or voicemail.
The phone includes a built-in answering machine.
Voicemail service is purchased through your
telephone service provider. Each method has
unique features and benefits.
When your line is engaged, voicemail service detects
and stores a record of incoming calls and messages,
whereas the answering machine does not.
If you prefer using an answering machine for easy
message access, but you also want to be alerted
to incoming calls when you are on the line with an-
other caller, you can primarily use the answering
machine and purchase voicemail with the call wait-
ing feature. For further information, see page 118.
By default, the answering machine is turned off. To
turn on the answering machine and set it up, see
page 119.

Register additional handsets

The telephone handset that you purchased with your
ClearSounds A1600 telephone system is registered
to the base that came with the system (Base 1).
If you have additional ClearSounds A1600E
handsets, you must register each additional
handset to the base. For registration instructions,
see page 144.
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