VTech 8121 User Manual page 85

Screened call options
After the telephone screen a home call
and starts ringing, the handset screen
Screened
displays
HOME/FLASH or
call.
After you picked up the call, the
telephone announces
the caller's name, and then announces,
"To answer the call, press 1. To answer
and always allow this number, press 2.
To block this number, press 3. To send
this call to the answering system, press
4. To repeat these options, press
Allow this call once:
• Press 1 to answer the call. The
telephone number will not be added
to your allow list.
Always allow this call:
• Press 2 to answer the call. The
telephone number will be added to
your allow list.
Block this call:
• Press 3 or CALL BLOCK to block the
call. The telephone plays the block
announcement
are calling is not accepting your call.
Please hang
telephone number will be added to
your block list.
Send this call to the answering system:
• Press 4 to forward the call to the
answering system.
End this call:
• If you do not want to take the call,
press OFF/CANCEL to end the call.
call.
to pick up the
"Call from..." and
*".
"The number you
up." to the caller. The
NOTES
• For home calls that are "out of area",
"Private", or without caller ID, only
Press
options 1 and 4 will be available. The
telephone announces
the call, press 1. To send this call to
the answering system, press 4. To
repeat these options, press
• If you select option 4 to send the call
to the answering system, the caller
can leave a message even if the
answering system is off.
• When the telephone is ringing,
you can press MUTE/DELETE on
the handset to mute the ringer
temporarily.
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"To answer
*".