User Manual

16
Important concepts
Choose answering machine or voicemail
Before you set up and personalize your new phone,
you must decide how you will store messages. You
must choose one method as a primary message
retrieval method: answering machine or voicemail.
The phone includes a built-in answering machine.
Voicemail service is purchased through your
telephone service provider. Each method has
unique features and benets.
When your line is engaged, voicemail service detects
and stores a record of incoming calls and messages,
whereas the answering machine does not.
If you prefer using an answering machine for easy
message access, but you also want to be alerted
to incoming calls when you are on the line with
another caller, you should purchase the call waiting
feature from your telephone service provider. For
further information, see page 93.
By default, the answering machine is turned o. To
turn on the answering machine and set it up, see
page 94.