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are able to see your status. The requested information is shown in Subscribed
names in the viewers’ Contacts menu. You can personalize the information that
you want to share with others and control who can see your status.
Before you can use presence, you need to subscribe to the service. To check the
availability and costs, and to subscribe to the service, contact your network
operator or service provider, from whom you also receive your unique ID,
password, and the settings for the service. See Configuration settings on page 96.
To use presence, connect to the service. While you are connected to the presence
service, you can use the other functions of the phone, and the presence service is
active in the background. If you disconnect from the service, your presence status
is shown for a certain amount of time for the viewers depending on the service
provider.
Press Menu, and select Contacts, and My presence. Select from the following
options:
• Connect to ’My presence’ service or Disconnect to connect to or to disconnect
from the service.
• My current presence, and select, for example, to view your current private or
public status, to change your presence status, or to select the groups with
whom you want to share your presence status information.
• Viewers, and select to view all the persons who have subscribed to, who are
allowed to view, or who are blocked from viewing your presence information.
• Settings, and select from following: