Group Paging Mode - Polycom SoundPoint 550 User Manual

User Guide for the SoundPoint IP 550/560 Phone

Group Paging Mode

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2. From the PTT Channel Configuration screen, use the down arrow key to
locate Accept While Busy, then press the Select soft key.
3. From the Accept While Busy screen, use the left or right arrow key to
select Enabled or Disabled, then press the Ok soft key.
The default setting is Disabled. When enabled, your phone will accept and
play broadcasts while you're in an active call. When disabled, your phone
won't play broadcasts while you're in a call, but will hold them instead.
Your phone may be enabled to operate in a broadcast mode called
Group Paging mode. In this mode, you broadcast one-way announcements to
a specified group of phones, called a Paging Group. In Group Paging mode,
users must subscribe to Paging Groups to send and receive pages.
Sending and Receiving Pages
To send and receive pages, you need to subscribe to certain Paging Groups. By
default, you're subscribed to Paging Groups 1, 24, and 25. This means that:
• You can send pages to Paging Groups 1, 24, and 25.
• You'll receive pages sent to Paging Groups 1, 24, and 25.
Sending Pages
By default, when you send a group page, it's automatically sent to
Paging Group 1. This is your default paging group.
You can change your default paging group to any group you want (see
Updating the Default Paging Group
paging group, you'll become subscribed to that paging group automatically.
To subscribe to a paging group, see
page 3-19.
To send a page:
1. To send a page, press the Paging soft key.
on page 3-19). If you change your default
Updating Paging Group Subscriptions on