Getting to know your Octophon F640 phone
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Control and monitoring function
A control or monitoring function can be activated on your phone for service purposes by re-
mote maintenance.
Control function
Service personnel have the option to activate and deactivate features of the phone via re-
mote maintenance. During maintenance the handset, microphone, loudspeaker and head-
set are deactivated. You are additionally informed on the display that the control function is
active.
Monitoring function
In order to detect malfunctioning of a phone for example, the service personnel install a mon-
itoring function. You can use your phone as normal during monitoring. However you will first
be informed about the operation with a message on the display and prompted to allow mon-
itoring.
If service personnel have activated a function on your phone, which continuously transmits
operating data to a server, you will see the flashing icon
in the upper display line.