
Getting to Know Your New Phone
1
G
ETTING
TO
K
NOW
Y
OUR
N
EW
P
HONE
Your new CL980 telephone incorporates all the best features of a cordless tele-
phone and blends them with your local telephone company’s best calling features,
such as
Caller ID
,
Voice Mail
and
Call Waiting ID
.
If this is your first cordless telephone, you’ll soon discover that your cordless is sim-
ilar to regular telephones, except without the cord. If you’ve owned a cordless in
the past, you’ll discover that the CL980 telephone is the most powerful and full-
function
Caller ID
cordless telephone on the market. Some key features are:
❑
20 channel, digital spread spectrum 900 MHz handset with
speakerphone
❑
50
Caller ID
memory and 50 Directory Records
❑
Dedicated
Voice Mail
keys
❑
Large One Time Viewing (OTV
®
) display
❑
Hearing-aid compatibility
❑
Messages in English or Spanish
❑
Call timer for outgoing calls
❑
Single key redialing
❑
Preprogrammed for your local telephone company’s network services,
such as
3-Way Calling
.
Unlike regular telephones, your cordless does not work during power failures. Be-
cause of this restriction, we do not recommend you have only cordless telephones
in your residence.
U
NPACKING
Y
OUR
P
HONE
In addition to this handbook, check that you have:
❑
Telephone base
❑
Telephone handset
❑
6 ft. line cord
❑
5 inch line cord for wall mounting
❑
Wall-mount/desk-mount wedge
❑
AC Adapter
M
OUNTING
W
EDGE
6 F
OOT
L
INE
C
ORD
5 I
NCH
L
INE
C
ORD
F
OR
W
ALL
M
OUNTING
AC A
DAPTER
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