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NOTES the screening options, you can press • You can set Smart call blocker to screen OFF/CANCEL to hang up the call. and filter all unknown home calls. • If Smart call blocker is on and you You can easily add incoming phone receive a call waiting home call: numbers to your allow list and block • Smart call blocker will not screen list. This allows you to build up your a call waiting home call without lists of allowed and blocked numbers, number while on a call. You can and Smart call blocker will know how press HOME/FLASH or to to deal with these calls when they take the new call. come in again. • Afteryou have picked up a screened • The telephone announces to the caller home call, the telephone checks with "Hello. Calls to this number are whether the call waiting number is being screened by Smart call blocker..." in the directory, block list or allow If you have recorded your name in list. It also checks whether the caller the screening announcements, your name is in the star name list. After recorded name will replace "this that, The telephone then displays number" in the announcements. See the caller ID information or "Blocked Screening announcements. call" accordingly. You can press • The screening feature of Smart call HOME/FLASH or to take blocker is applicable to home calls the new call, or press CALL BLOCK only. on the handset block it. • If the caller hangs up before the home • While the telephone is screening call is screened, or without leaving a home call, the new call will be his/her name while the call is being ignored and logged as missed call screened, the call will be logged as in the caller ID log. missed call in the caller ID log. • Robocalls are unable to respond • While a home call is being screened, to the screening announcement, you can press HOME/FLASH or and therefore, will not get through to stop screening and answer the and ring. If you want to allow some call. robocalls to get through, save their • After the telephone screened a home names in the star name list. See Star call, and is ringing and announcing name list. the caller's name, you can press • The telephone can respond to remote OFF/CANCEL to mute the ringer, or access code while it is playing the press CALL BLOCK to reject the call screening announcement. This allows directly. you to access your answering system • After you picked up a screened home from an unknown number remotely. call and the telephone is announcing See Answering system remote access. 84 Screened call options After the telephone screen a home call NOTES and starts ringing, the handset screen • For home calls that are "out of area", displays Screened call. Press "Private", or without caller ID, only HOME/FLASH or to pick up the options 1 and 4 will be available. The call. telephone announces "To answer After you picked up the call, the the call, press 1. To send this call to telephone announces "Call from..." and the answering system, press 4. To the caller's name, and then announces, repeat these options, press *". "To answer the call, press 1. To answer • If you select option 4 to send the call and always allow this number, press 2. to the answering system, the caller To block this number, press 3. To send can leave a message even if the this call to the answering system, press answering system is off. 4. To repeat these options, press *". • When the telephone is ringing, Allow this call once: • Press 1 to answer the call. The telephone number will not be added you can press MUTE/DELETE on the handset to mute the ringer temporarily. to your allow list. Always allow this call: • Press 2 to answer the call. The telephone number will be added to your allow list. Block this call: • Press 3 or CALL BLOCK to block the call. The telephone plays the block announcement "The number you are calling is not accepting your call. Please hang up." to the caller. The telephone number will be added to your block list. Send this call to the answering system: • Press 4 to forward the call to the answering system. End this call: • If you do not want to take the call, press OFF/CANCEL to end the call. 85