User's Manual Chapter 13

AT&T Digital Broadband Customer Guide
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Call Trace
To activate the Call Trace feature:
1. Hang up immediately from the offensive phone call.
2. Wait 10 seconds, pick up the handset, and dial *57.
3. If the call trace is successful, you will receive
instructions on how to deliver the call trace
information to the local law enforcement authorities.
If the call trace was not successful, you will receive an
error message.
Long Distance Alert
With this feature, incoming long distance calls have a special
ring to distinguish them from local calls. The long distance
ringing pattern contains three rings. If you also have Call
Waiting, an incoming long distance call will provide a
distinctive call waiting tone with three beeps.
If you ever receive a harassing or
threatening phone call, you now
have the ability to trace the call.
With this feature, incoming long
distance calls have a special ring to
distinguish them from local calls.