Specifications

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Alphanumeric Page Input from a Touch-Tone Phone
such as a hunt group on a PBX, or a set of DID lines. If you have four incoming lines in a
group like this, you must equip ALL lines with the alpha option. If you have the alpha
option on only two of the four lines, some of your alpha calls will fail as they happen to
come into a non-alpha-equipped line (as the phone equipment hunts or rotaries to another
line).
Display Limit
Alpha messages are truncated at the Display Limit set for each subscriber. If a 100-
character message is sent to a pager with a 50-character display limit, only the first 50
characters will be sent to the pager.
Alphanumeric Page Input from a Touch-Tone Phone
Alphanumeric pagers can be paged from a regular phone - it is not required to use an
alphanumeric entry device to page an alpha pager. Numeric-only, canned, or spelled-out
messages can be placed using just a phone, as described below.
These capabilities do not require the purchase of any alphanumeric entry option, since
they are done with a phone, not by way of a modem.
Numeric Messages
The input of a phone number is the same as for a numeric pager:
You can send the message “820-6363”, by keying:
820*6363
Canned Messages
Using the Canned Messages feature, an alphanumeric message may be put on the display
as follows:
**00 to **99 = Puts canned message **00 to **99 on the pager display (canned messages
are set up by the system operator).
If the following canned messages are set up by the system operator:
0-9 Puts the digit on the pager display.
# Ends page input.
* Puts a – on the pager display.
#2 Clears previous input (for example, entering 123#2456, pager gets 456).