VTech DS4122-4 - Manual (Page 29)

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Answering system operation
Answering system and voicemail
Your telephone has both a digital answering system and
voicemail indication. Voicemail is offered by your telephone
service provider (fees may apply). Your telephone’s answering
system and voicemail indication are independent features,
and each alerts you to new messages differently. For more
information on the voicemail indicators, see page 9. To
listen to your voicemail, you typically dial an access number
provided by your telephone company, followed by a security
code or PIN. To listen to messages recorded on your digital
answering system, press /PLAY/STOP button on the
telephone base.
If you subscribe to caller ID/call waiting service through your telephone service provider, you can
use your telephone answering system and voicemail together. Set your answering system to answer
calls at least two rings earlier than your voicemail is set to answer. For example, set your voicemail to
answer calls after six rings and set your answering system to answer after four rings. Some voicemail
providers may program the delay before answering calls in seconds instead of rings; in this case allow
six seconds per ring when determining the appropriate setting. By doing this, if you are on a call, or if
the answering system is busy recording a message and you receive another call, the second caller
can leave a voicemail message.
Message capacity
The answering system can record up to 99 messages. Each message can be up to four minutes in
length. The total storage capacity for the announcement, messages and memos is approximately
15 minutes. Messages will remain available for replay until they are deleted.
Press to play or stop
messages (see page 31).
Press to turn the answering
system on or off (see
page 27).
Press to adjust volume
during playback (see
page 31).
Press to skip to the next
message (see page 31).