Call Screening; Call Intercept - AT&T TL86103 User Manual

Answering system
About the answering system

Call screening

To screen a call at the telephone base:
If the answering system and call screening are on (see Call screening on/off
on page 110), the announcement and the incoming message broadcast at the
telephone base when a call is answered by the answering system.
Options while a message is being recorded:
• Press /VOLUME/ on the telephone base to adjust the call
screening volume.
• Press /LINE 1 MAIL BOX,
temporarily silence the call screening.
• Press /LINE 1 MAIL BOX,
temporarily turn on the call screening if call screening is set to off.
Press 1 LINE, 2 LINE, SPEAKER
•
the call.
To screen a call at the handset:
If the answering system is on and your answering system is recording a message,
SCREEN
press to screen the call on your cordless handset and the screen
displays the caller ID information. If you do not subscribe to caller ID service,
the handset shows Incoming call.
Options while a message is being recorded:
• Press /VOLUME or
CID
CANCEL or
• Press
OFF/
• Press SCREEN
set to off.
• Press /SPEAKER SPEAKER to broadcast the announcement and the incoming
message through the speakerphone. Press again to turn off the speakerphone.

Call intercept

While screening a call, you can stop recording and speak to the caller by
pressing the corresponding line button
/SPEAKER on the cordless handset, or pressing the corresponding line button
1 LINE, 2 LINE, or SPEAKER
corded handset to stop recording and talk to the caller.
/VOLUME to adjust the call screening volume.
DIR
SILENCE
to temporarily turn on the call screening if call screening is
on the telephone base. You can also lift the
/LINE 2 MAIL BOX or
/LINE 2 MAIL BOX or
, or lift the corded handset to answer
to temporarily silence the call screening.
LINE 1/
FLASH
117
SILENCE
SCREEN
, LINE 2/
, or
FLASH
to
to