panic button for IP phone
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@Mike-Davis said in panic button for IP phone:
Nortel has a feature they call "voicecall" where when you press voicecall and then dial an extension, it calls the other extension, beeps once, and immediately puts their phone on speaker phone. If a feature like this were available, that would work because the person on the other end of the line would immediately be able to hear what is going on in the room.
As for the beep, I have heard rumors that the beep can be disabled. I have heard that car dealers disable the beep. Then when they leave you in their office to "talk to their manager" they go to the manager's office and then voicecall their phone. voila - they can now hear your conversation and if you were to search for a bug, you wouldn't find it because it's right in front of you.
And this is illegal ("everywhere") this is the 1 party consent laws that have been discussed over and over.
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@DustinB3403 said in panic button for IP phone:
@Mike-Davis said in panic button for IP phone:
Nortel has a feature they call "voicecall" where when you press voicecall and then dial an extension, it calls the other extension, beeps once, and immediately puts their phone on speaker phone. If a feature like this were available, that would work because the person on the other end of the line would immediately be able to hear what is going on in the room.
As for the beep, I have heard rumors that the beep can be disabled. I have heard that car dealers disable the beep. Then when they leave you in their office to "talk to their manager" they go to the manager's office and then voicecall their phone. voila - they can now hear your conversation and if you were to search for a bug, you wouldn't find it because it's right in front of you.
And this is illegal ("everywhere") this is the 1 party consent laws that have been discussed over and over.
That's for recording, not speaker phones.
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@scottalanmiller said in panic button for IP phone:
@DustinB3403 said in panic button for IP phone:
@Mike-Davis said in panic button for IP phone:
Nortel has a feature they call "voicecall" where when you press voicecall and then dial an extension, it calls the other extension, beeps once, and immediately puts their phone on speaker phone. If a feature like this were available, that would work because the person on the other end of the line would immediately be able to hear what is going on in the room.
As for the beep, I have heard rumors that the beep can be disabled. I have heard that car dealers disable the beep. Then when they leave you in their office to "talk to their manager" they go to the manager's office and then voicecall their phone. voila - they can now hear your conversation and if you were to search for a bug, you wouldn't find it because it's right in front of you.
And this is illegal ("everywhere") this is the 1 party consent laws that have been discussed over and over.
That's for recording, not speaker phones.
Consent laws still apply (invasion of privary)
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@DustinB3403 said in panic button for IP phone:
@scottalanmiller said in panic button for IP phone:
@DustinB3403 said in panic button for IP phone:
@Mike-Davis said in panic button for IP phone:
Nortel has a feature they call "voicecall" where when you press voicecall and then dial an extension, it calls the other extension, beeps once, and immediately puts their phone on speaker phone. If a feature like this were available, that would work because the person on the other end of the line would immediately be able to hear what is going on in the room.
As for the beep, I have heard rumors that the beep can be disabled. I have heard that car dealers disable the beep. Then when they leave you in their office to "talk to their manager" they go to the manager's office and then voicecall their phone. voila - they can now hear your conversation and if you were to search for a bug, you wouldn't find it because it's right in front of you.
And this is illegal ("everywhere") this is the 1 party consent laws that have been discussed over and over.
That's for recording, not speaker phones.
Consent laws still apply (invasion of privary)
Not sure they do...
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@Mike-Davis said in panic button for IP phone:
Nortel has a feature they call "voicecall" where when you press voicecall and then dial an extension, it calls the other extension, beeps once, and immediately puts their phone on speaker phone. If a feature like this were available, that would work because the person on the other end of the line would immediately be able to hear what is going on in the room.
As for the beep, I have heard rumors that the beep can be disabled. I have heard that car dealers disable the beep. Then when they leave you in their office to "talk to their manager" they go to the manager's office and then voicecall their phone. voila - they can now hear your conversation and if you were to search for a bug, you wouldn't find it because it's right in front of you.
Mitel has something like this, but different.
You can have extensions set to auto answer - if you call it from anywhere internal, it just autoanswers. I think they do have a dial code to allow auto answer as well.
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@DustinB3403 said in panic button for IP phone:
@scottalanmiller said in panic button for IP phone:
@DustinB3403 said in panic button for IP phone:
@Mike-Davis said in panic button for IP phone:
Nortel has a feature they call "voicecall" where when you press voicecall and then dial an extension, it calls the other extension, beeps once, and immediately puts their phone on speaker phone. If a feature like this were available, that would work because the person on the other end of the line would immediately be able to hear what is going on in the room.
As for the beep, I have heard rumors that the beep can be disabled. I have heard that car dealers disable the beep. Then when they leave you in their office to "talk to their manager" they go to the manager's office and then voicecall their phone. voila - they can now hear your conversation and if you were to search for a bug, you wouldn't find it because it's right in front of you.
And this is illegal ("everywhere") this is the 1 party consent laws that have been discussed over and over.
That's for recording, not speaker phones.
Consent laws still apply (invasion of privary)
I've not seen one that applies. Not aware of any. That means very little, but nothing we've been discussing relates at all. Recording and listening are totally different under the law. The listener is a full on member of the conversation and the consent is from any of several parties. Consent doesn't apply and the laws we discussed don't apply. Only notification applies and notification was only in the context of recording.
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In this case, if the PBX had a similar feature implemented the way Nortel does it (with the beep) I think that would still be an option to consider.
At the end of the day, I'm going to be sitting across from a few people that run the office and I'd like to give them a few options for a system that we can do with our phone system that their current system can't do.
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What system are you pitching? Doesn't that system have a list of features?
Looking at the Mitel manual, there are dozens if not 100+ feature codes.
what's worse though - explaining the difference between ACD vs huntgroups and how they could be used. -
@Dashrender I'd be pitching what ever kind of PBX @Mike-Ralston wants to build and support and what ever kind of phones would work well for them.
The nortel system they are on is going end of life and I feel like the support costs would be lower going to a IP based PBX.
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@Mike-Davis said in panic button for IP phone:
@Dashrender I'd be pitching what ever kind of PBX @Mike-Ralston wants to build and support and what ever kind of phones would work well for them.
The nortel system they are on is going end of life and I feel like the support costs would be lower going to a IP based PBX.
I'm in a similar situation. My biggest issue is replacing all the old CAT 3 cable.
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@Dashrender said in panic button for IP phone:
I'm in a similar situation. My biggest issue is replacing all the old CAT 3 cable.
Since phones with gig switches built in are so cheap now, and every office has a CAT 5/5e/6 drop, this client would be fine.
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@Mike-Davis said in panic button for IP phone:
@Dashrender said in panic button for IP phone:
I'm in a similar situation. My biggest issue is replacing all the old CAT 3 cable.
Since phones with gig switches built in are so cheap now, and every office has a CAT 5/5e/6 drop, this client would be fine.
Lucky you -
And So cheap? When I looked at 1 Gb phones they were 20-40% more than 100 Mb phones.
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@Mike-Davis said in panic button for IP phone:
@Dashrender I'd be pitching what ever kind of PBX @Mike-Ralston wants to build and support and what ever kind of phones would work well for them.
That'll be FreePBX.
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@scottalanmiller said in panic button for IP phone:
@Mike-Davis said in panic button for IP phone:
@Dashrender I'd be pitching what ever kind of PBX @Mike-Ralston wants to build and support and what ever kind of phones would work well for them.
That'll be FreePBX.
I assumed as much, but wanted to make sure.. so get a list of functions then compare to functions on old system.
