VTech DS6121 - Manual (Page 33)

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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 and store up to 99 messages. A message can
be up to four minutes in length. The total storage capacity for the announcement,
messages and memos is approximately 14 minutes. Messages will remain available
for replay until they are deleted.