User`s guide

3.11 Making A Subdued Off-Hook

Voice Announcement

(SOHVA)

You can make a subdued voice announcement to another sta

tion that is off-hook and busy on a call if the system is arranged

to provide this feature. If your telephone provides a SOHVA

button and you encounter a busy tone after making an intercom

call, you can then decide whether to deliver a SOHVA mes

sage, camp on at that station, set a message-waiting indicator,

or hang up. Without this special button, the SOHVA call com

pletes automatically.

Make a SOHVA announcement using the SOHVA button

as follows:

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make intercom call and hear busy tone,

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decide whether to interrupt or not,

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if you decide not to interrupt the called party, hang up,

–or–

•

to interrupt, press preprogrammed SOHVA button and

hear several quick tone bursts,

•

make announcement (busy tone means that the called tele-

phone is in speakerphone mode and you cannot make an-

nouncement, that your SOHVA has been denied through

system programming, or that the called party has blocked

your SOHVA),

•

wait on line for reply (either verbal or LCD reply).

NOTE: The caller cannot control how the announcement is received.

This depends upon the equipment used and station program

ming.

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