Customer Reviews

AT&T 945 4-Line Speakerphone with Intercom

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I bought this phone mainly because I wanted a model that had numerous speed-dialing buttons and a decent speakerphone. Thus far, I am very pleased with the model. The 945 is a 4-line phone designed for office use, but it works great as a home phone. It has 16 speed dial buttons located on the right side of the phone. This makes it a snap to call family and friends by just pushing two buttons - one for speakerphone and one for the number. The speakerphone seems to work well and I also like the green backlit lcd display, which generally looks cool but also makes the phone easy to use in the dark. It also displays the date, time, number dialed, and phone call length, useful for keeping track of how long an interesting (or not) conversation has been going on for. Phone preferences can be set by an easy to use on-screen menu system and there are also a bunch of ring tones to choose from, which I appreciate because I have chosen a lower frequency tone that is so much more pleasant than the typical high-pitched annoying telephone ring my last phone had. Be aware, though, that Caller ID isn't supported on this phone.

Bought two of these phones at work, and we love them. VERY easy to install and use; didn't even have to open the user's manual. The sound is very clear and not muffled at all.

One thing I would recommend for those who purchase this phone: turn the "Hold Reminder" feature off. When you're on the other line, and have a call on hold, the reminder beep will cut into your conversation with the other person.

Other than that, we love the easy-to-use features of this phone! I would recommend this product to anyone.

These phones so far work very well. There are two points to heed if you are doing wiring for them.

The phone takes in telco lines two at a time. One connecting cable/wire carries lines 1 and 2, and the second carries 3 and 4. DO NOT FEED a dedicated fax line nor a DSL line to line one (first cable, inner pair of wires in a 4-wire jack/plug). Leave that as plain as you can since it seems to be the administrative line for the system.

If you're feeding a line with DSL into this puppy, it REQUIRES a DSL filter on the line. Feed DSL in on line 3 (the inner pair of the second cable) as a telco DSL filter will filter the inner pair of line 3 and pass through on line four (the outer pair). That will make this phone's setup easy.

This phone worked great for about three weeks, and then yesterday, the microphone on the speaker started to work flakily. It now works less than 25% of the time, and will sometimes cut out in the middle of a call. Additionally, sometimes when I try dialing a number it doesn't register the phone number and will eventually receive an off-the-hook signal. If I hang up and hit redial it will dial fine. The phone also does not have caller id which I would have expected on a phone for this price.

This phone works very well for me in my busy office. I was specifially looking for hold, speakphone, mute, and Do Not Disturb, which this phone has. The only 2 things I don't like is that is doesn't have caller ID, and finding an old caller ID box is proving time consuming, plus when I put a call on hold and my assistant picks it up in the other room, my phone continues to beep at me reminding me that I put someone on hold. Other that those two things, I like the phone.

Everything works great except one receiver had a bad mic & had to be replaced, otherwise great!

I have been using these phones for about four years in my small business and they are ideal and easy to use.

This phone works okay. Don't drop the handset unless you want to have to replace it.

We bought this system for our small office and loved it for about a year until we got DSL and then the entire system went haywire. Apparently, the system uses the same frequency as DSL and you have to order a special splitter and have your phone company install it for you to correct the problem. Well I spent 2 hours on the phone with At&t arguing with them before they would even agree to send me a splitter and then an hour on the phone with Bellsouth explaining what I needed them to do. Repairman came out, crawled the house, etc and apparently it's not going to work any way we do it. So we wasted our money on this system and now have to replace it. So be careful...

I ordered a 945 and received a 1040 which had to be returned because it was not compatible with our 900 series telephone system. The shipper did pay return shipping, but why didn't they contact us before sending what we did not order?