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Screen robocalls messages, for example, robocalls and telemarketing calls. If Smart call blocker is on, and you have set profile to screen robocalls, the telephone plays a screening announcement to the caller when receiving the following incoming home calls. It asks the caller to press the pound key (#) before putting the call through to you. • NOTES The telephone announces to the caller with "Hello. Calls to this number are being screened by Smart call blocker..." If you have recorded your name in the screening announcements, your recorded • Incoming home calls with numbers that are "out of area" or with numbers set to "Private"; • Incoming home calls with absent caller ID numbers; • Incoming home calls with numbers that are not in your phonebook, allow list, nor block list; or • Incoming home calls with names that are not in your star name list. name will replace "this number" in the announcements (See Screening announcement). • The screening feature of Smart call blocker is applicable to home calls only. • If the caller hangs up before the home call is screened, or without leaving his/her name while the call is being screened, the call will be logged as missed call in the caller ID Screen calls without asking for caller log. names • While a home call is being screened, When screening a home call, the telephone announces to the caller, you can press or to stop "Hello. Calls to this number are being screening and answer the call. screened by Smart call blocker. If you're • If Smart call blocker is on and you a family member, friend or invited caller, receive a call waiting home call: please press pound to be connected. If • Smart call blocker will not screen you're a solicitor, please hang up now." a call waiting home call without After the caller presses the pound key number while on a call. You can (#), the telephone announces to the caller "Please wait a moment while your call is connected." The telephone starts ringing, and you can answer the call. This option is suitable for you to filter calls that uses autodialers to deliver prerecorded press or to take the new call. • After you have picked up a screened home call, the telephone checks whether the call waiting number is in the phonebook, 57

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Screen robocalls
If Smart call blocker is on, and you
have set profile to screen robocalls,
the
telephone
plays
a
screening
announcement to the
caller when
receiving the following incoming home
calls. It asks the caller to press the pound
key (
#
) before putting the call through
to you.
•
Incoming home calls with numbers
that are “out of area“ or with
numbers set to “Private“;
•
Incoming home calls with absent
caller ID numbers;
•
Incoming home calls with numbers
that are not in your phonebook,
allow list, nor block list; or
•
Incoming home calls with names
that are not in your star name list.
Screen calls without asking for caller
names
When screening a home call, the
telephone announces to the caller,
“Hello. Calls to this number are being
screened by Smart call blocker. If you’re
a family member, friend or invited caller,
please press pound to be connected. If
you’re a solicitor, please hang up now.”
After the caller presses the pound key
(#), the telephone announces to the
caller
“Please wait a moment while your
call is connected.”
The
telephone
starts
ringing,
and
you can answer the call. This option is
suitable for you to filter calls that uses
autodialers
to
deliver
prerecorded
messages, for example, robocalls and
telemarketing calls.
NOTES
•
The telephone announces to the
caller with
“Hello.
Calls to this
number are being screened by
Smart call blocker...”
If you have
recorded your name in the screening
announcements,
your
recorded
name will replace
“this number”
in
the announcements (See
Screening
announcement
).
•
The screening feature of Smart call
blocker is applicable to home calls
only.
•
If the caller hangs up before the
home call is screened, or without
leaving his/her name while the call
is being screened, the call will be
logged as missed call in the caller ID
log.
•
While a home call is being screened,
you can press
or
to stop
screening and answer the call.
•
If Smart call blocker is on and you
receive a call waiting home call:
•
Smart call blocker will not screen
a call waiting home call without
number while on a call. You can
press
or
to take the
new call.
•
After you have picked up a
screened home call, the telephone
checks whether the call waiting
number is in the phonebook,