Lucent Technologies MERLIN Plus Release 2, System Manual

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OUTWARD RESTRICTED Some people in your business may have little need to make any outside calls,
either local or long distance. During system administration you can place an
outward call restriction on their voice terminals, and the system will ignore
attempts to dial outside telephone numbers from those voice terminals. Then if
you want these people to be able to make local calls in business or personal
emergencies, you can assign them an Allowed List of local exchanges and,
perhaps, emergency numbers such as 911 when you assign the call restrictions.
You can also use System Speed Dial codes (called passwords in some telephone
systems) with Restriction Override to allow restricted voice terminals to call
selected local or long distance telephone numbers. You simply mark the
numbers for Restriction Override and store them in the system’s memory under
Speed Dial codes when you administer the system. Then anyone in your system,
including those with restricted voice terminals, can use the Speed Dial codes to
call the stored numbers.
On the Call Restrictions Assignment Form . . .
Put a check mark in the “Outward Restricted” column next to the intercom
numbers for the voice terminals you want to place outward restrictions on
when you administer the system.
ALLOWED LISTS
When you assign an Allowed List of numbers to a voice terminal, the person
using the voice terminal can call the numbers on the list regardless of any call
restriction placed on the voice terminal.
The system can store up to eight Allowed Lists of numbers with up to 10 entries
in each list. Each entry can have up to eight digits. You might, therefore, want
to create one or more Allowed Lists with entries such as the following:
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Local exchange codes
A local exchange code is the first three digits in a 7-digit telephone number.
Long distance area codes
Area codes plus local exchange codes
Emergency numbers with eight or fewer digits
For example, 911 is a multipurpose emergency number in many areas.
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