CO - Central Office Announcement

Identifies the number of rings which should be heard by the caller before s(he) is directed to a call in progress announcement.  The delay announcement for queued calls on hunt group feature provides alternative treatments for incoming callers to a multi-line hunt group that is subject to queuing.  This feature allows timed audible ringing tone followed by a customer selected combination of announcements separated by silence, music, or audible ringing tone.

VALID ENTRIES:

1-99 = number of rings before directing calls

R = remove

No entry = indicates no change or requirement

USAGE: This field is conditional.

NOTE 1: Prohibited when the QUE field is blank.

NOTE 2: Required when ordering the Central Office Announcement feature.

NOTE 3: Prohibited when the first character of the Request Type (REQTYP) field contains a value other than "A".

NOTE 4: Right most position is reserved for the value of "R" to remove this feature.

DATA CHARACTERISTICS: 4 alpha/numeric characters

EXAMPLE: 0 9

EXAMPLE: R