Outside dial tone preference
If you make mostly outside calls, you may find this setting helpful. It tells your station to connect automatically to an available outside line; i.e., you don’t have to dial 9 (or 8 or 71–76) before the phone number. Therefore, when you lift the handset or (except on a legacy 12-Key Feature Phone) press SPEAKER, you will immediately receive an outside dial tone from the highest-numbered line available to you. (This aspect — i.e., that it’s always the highest line available to you — can’t be changed.)
Notes:
To place an internal call while in this mode, either press the appropriate station key or (a.) press TRANSFER to switch to internal dial tone and then (b.) dial the extension number. Please note that, if you wish not to transfer a caller but instead are only placing an internal call, you must press TRANSFER within the first five seconds after going off-hook. Six seconds after you go off-hook, the ESI system considers the call to be a transferred call.
On an ESI Cordless Handset II or original ESI Cordless Handset, press TALK to receive internal dial tone.
