User guide

Using Your Phone 2–13
2. Using Your Phone
Using the Speaker
Your telephone has a speaker that you can use for
receiving calls or listening to the PhoneMail system.
On ROLMphone models that only have a speaker and
not a microphone (RP312, RP612, and RP624), you
must lift the handset to speak to the other party.
To answer a call
on your primary
line
➩
Pick up the handset. The blinking status light
next to the line key turns on steadily.
To answer a call
on another line
➩
Press the line key next to the blinking status
light.
➩
Pick up the handset.
To hang up when
using the handset ➩
Hang up the handset.
To hang up when
listening to the
speaker
➩
Press the line key or the SPEAKER key.
When someone puts you on hold, you do not need to
hold the handset while waiting. If you have a Speaker
key, press it and replace the handset. The speaker lets
you hear your party reconnect to the call. If you do not
have a Speaker key, press the Hold key, replace the
handset, and press the line key.