AT&T Spirit Communications System, User Training Workbook

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Answering Calls
Hands Free Answering On Intercom
There may be an occasion where you will want to respond to an Intercom call without
necessarily being near your phone. You might be sitting at a conference table in your
office and waiting for another person in your organization to phone in the name of a
client. Rather than having to get up to answer the call, you would like to get the
information from where you are sitting.
The SPIRIT system allows this with its “HFAI” feature — Hands Free Answer on
Intercom.
When the MUTE/HFAI button is pushed when the telephone is not in use (the HFAI light
above the volume control will turn on), the phone acts as a two-way speakerphone
where all you have to do is talk and the person calling on the intercom will hear you.
You need not press the SPEAKER button or lift the receiver.
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Press the MUTE/HFAI button when
The HFAI light above the Volume
your phone is not in use. control will go on.
Someone else in the organization
You will hear a brief tone indicating
calls you via intercom.
someone is calling you.
Begin talking. The person on the other phone will
hear you clearly.
When the other party hangs up, your telephone will also hang up and you will be ready
to receive the next inside call.
NOW YOU TRY IT . . .
Ask someone in the organization to help you try out this convenient
feature. Follow the steps above.
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