Phone Features
The following features cost $5 to install and do not have a monthly fee. To have a feature installed on your phone, send an email to phones@law.berkeley.edu with your name, phone number, room number, and feature(s) you would like installed as well as the chartstring to which you would like the order charged. Please obtain appropriate supervisory approval before sending the order email. More phone features are listed in your Campus Directory, starting on page 10.
Note: When trying to use the following features, if you hear a busy signal instead of the specified special tone, then you do not have that feature installed.
Call Transfer allows you to transfer calls that you have initiated or received at an on-campus telephone number.
- FLASH once to put first party on "hold"
- Hear special dial tone
- Dial campus number
- Announce transfer (optional)
- Hang up
Three-Way Conference allows you to establish a conference with two other parties. It can also be used to transfer phone calls.
- FLASH once to put the first party on "hold"
- Hear special dial tone
- Dial desired number of second partyAnnounce conference
- FLASH once to connect all callers to conference
- When conference is complete, hang up
Call Forward Variable allows you to forward incoming calls to another telephone number. This feature must be activated and deactivated from the same telephone. Call Forward Variable may be limited to campus only or may be unlimited; please specify which type you are requesting when you order this feature.
To activate:
- Lift handset
- Hear dial tone
- Dial "12#"
- Hear special dial tone
- Dial the phone number (including "9" if dialing an off-campus number) to which calls are to be forwarded
- Hear confirmation tone
- Hang up
To deactivate:
- Lift handset
- Hear special dial tone
- Dial "72"
- Hear confirmation tone
- Hang up