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Smart call blocker
Screen robocalls
If Smart call blocker is on, and you have set profile to screen robocalls, the
telephone plays a screening announcement to the caller when receiving the
following incoming home calls. It asks the caller to press the pound key (#)
before putting the call through to you.
Incoming home calls with numbers that are "out of area" or with numbers set
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to "Private";
Incoming home calls with absent caller ID numbers;
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Incoming home calls with numbers that are not in your directory, allow list,
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nor block list; or
Incoming home calls with names that are not in your star name list.
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Screen calls without asking for caller names
When screening a home call, the telephone announces to the
caller, "Hello. Calls to this number are being screened by Smart
call blocker. If you're a family member, friend or invited caller,
please press pound to be connected. If you're a solicitor, please
hang up now." After the caller presses the pound key (#), the
telephone announces to the caller "Please wait a moment while your call is
connected.". The telephone starts ringing, and you can answer the call.
This option is suitable for you to filter calls that uses autodialers to deliver pre-
recorded messages, for example, robocalls and telemarketing calls.
Notes:
The telephone announces to the caller with "Hello. Calls to this number are being screened by Smart call blocker..." If
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you have recorded your name in the screening announcements, your recorded name will replace "this number" in the
announcements. See Screening announcement on page 91.
The screening feature of Smart call blocker is applicable to home calls only.
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If the caller hangs up before the home call is screened, or without leaving his/her name while the call is being
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screened, the call will be logged as missed call in the caller ID log.
While a home call is being screened, you can press
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answer the call.
If Smart call blocker is on and you receive a call waiting home call:
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- Smart call blocker will not screen a call waiting home call without number while on a call. You can press
- After you have picked up a screened home call, the telephone checks whether the call waiting number is in the
directory, block list or allow list. It also checks whether the caller name is in the star name list. After that, The
telephone then displays the caller ID information or "Blocked call" accordingly. You can press
/SPEAKER to take the new call, or press
- While the telephone is screening a home call, the new call will be ignored and logged as missed call in the caller ID
log.
Robocalls are unable to respond to the screening announcement, and therefore, will not get through and ring. If you
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want to allow some robocalls on the home line to get through, save their names in the star name list. See page 88.
The telephone can respond to remote access code while it is playing the screening announcement. This allows you to
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access your answering system from an unknown number remotely. See Remote access on page 119.
/SPEAKER to take the new call.
or
or
CALL BLOCK on the handset to block it.
VOICE/
100
Home screening...
ECO
10:30
/SPEAKER to stop screening and
11/20
PM
or
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