Conference Group Call Features; Conference Group Call - Panasonic KX-NCP500 Features Manual

1.15 Conference Group Call Features

1.15.1 Conference Group Call

Description
Conference group calling allows you to call a pre-determined group (conference group) of parties
simultaneously. Each party that answers the call joins the conference.
An extension user can call a conference group of up to 7 parties to establish a conference call, for a maximum
of 8 participants. During a conference group call, the caller can restrict the ability of other members to speak.
The following telephones will answer automatically and play the announcement through the telephone's
speaker, even if Hands-free Answerback (® 1.4.1.4 Hands-free Answerback) is not enabled for the extension:
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PTs
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KX-WT125 (PS)
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KX-TCA175 (PS)
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KX-TCA275 (PS)
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KX-TCA185 (PS)
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KX-TCA285 (PS)
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KX-TCA385 (PS)
Broadcast Mode
When Broadcast Mode is enabled through system programming, an extension user can call a conference group
of up to 31 call members to make a voice announcement. Members can listen to the announcement by
answering the call.
During the announcement, the voices of members will not be heard. However, the caller can allow up to 7
specific members to speak, making a conference call. This conversation can be heard by the other members.
[Push-to-talk feature]
Members of a Broadcast Mode call can enable their own ability to speak by pressing any of their dial keys
during the Broadcast Mode announcement. This feature can be disabled through system programming.
[Example]
A central operator can make a Broadcast Mode announcement to multiple PS users working throughout a
building. All the PS users will hear the announcement through their PSs' hands-free speaker. Then, any PS
user can use push-to-talk to respond to the request, and the response is heard by all broadcast members. This
makes it easy to assign and coordinate tasks with multiple staff members who frequently move throughout a
building.
Conference Group Call Control
During a conference group call, the caller can restrict or allow members' ability to speak, and can remove
members from the call using the following buttons. These buttons will function irrelevant of the Conference
Group Call mode. Pressing the other buttons during the conversation will be ignored.
Note
The operation of these buttons during a conference group call is different from the operations for the
Conference feature (® 1.14.1 Conference Features).
Button
DSS
CONF (Conference)
Disables or enables the corresponding member's ability to speak.
Establishes a conversation with the current members in the order
assigned in the conference group. Pressing this button again will add
the next available member in the group to the conversation.
1.15.1 Conference Group Call
Function
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