Important Concepts; Personalize Your Phone; Choose Answering Machine Or Voicemail - ClearSounds A500 User Manual

Important concepts

Personalize your phone

The ClearSounds A500 phone is feature-rich.
This manual describes all available features. Scan the
topics, and if you see an interesting feature, follow the
instructions to personalize your phone.

Choose answering machine or voicemail

Before you set up and personalize your new phone, decide
how you prefer to 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 another caller, you can primarily use the
answering machine and purchase voicemail with the
caller ID on call waiting feature. For further information,
see page 84.
By default, the answering machine is turned off. To turn on
the answering machine and set it up, see page 85.
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