Caller id (cid), Call waiting caller id, Receiving and storing cid information – GE 25860 User Manual

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Caller ID (CID)

Caller ID (CID) is a service available from your local telephone company.

For Caller ID to work on this system, you must subscribe to Caller ID service

from your local telephone company.
This unit receives and displays information transmitted by your local phone

company. This information can include the phone number, date, and time; or the

name, phone number, date, and time. The unit can store up to 40 calls for later review.

Call Waiting Caller ID

To receive Caller ID (CID) information from a Call Waiting call, you must

subscribe to the combined Call Waiting Caller ID service from your local

telephone company. Call Waiting Caller ID service allows you to see CID

information for an incoming call while you are on the telephone.

IMPORTANT: In order to use all of the Caller ID features of this unit, you

must subscribe to either the standard Name/Number Caller ID Service or Call

Waiting Caller ID Service. To know who is calling while you are on the phone,

you must subscribe to Call Waiting Caller ID Service.

Receiving and Storing CID Information

When you receive a call, the CID information is transmitted by the phone

company to your Caller ID telephone between the first and second ring.

When the phone’s CID memory is full, a new call record automatically

replaces the oldest call record. NEW appears in the display for calls received

which have not been reviewed. REPT appears in the display for calls

received more than once which have not been reviewed.

Caller ID name

Time

Date

Number of calls

Caller ID phone number

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