telephone conferencing

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How does free conference calling work?

If you are serious about the success of your business, you cannot afford to ignore communication. To discuss business proposals, make sales presentations or share financial results of the company, earlier people used to travel to meet face to face. But through conference calls, you will be able to communicate with any number of people without them being physically present with you in the same room. Travelling to business meetings not only takes time, but it is also expensive. When there are a host of free conference call solutions available, smart companies turn to them to cut the costs and yet keep the business running smoothly.

Free conference calls make business and personal communication easy. Many conferencing services provide affordable conferencing solutions, but if your teleconferencing needs are at a basic level, the free conference call services may be enough for you.

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Audio conferencing and options explained

Conference calls have revolutionised the way people communicate with others located in different geographical locations. By allowing three or more people to communicate simultaneously no matter where they are located, conference call services have truly made a difference in business and personal communications.

A teleconference works by connecting all the individual callers to a conference bridge which is a sophisticated server maintained by the teleconferencing service provider. The bridge acts like a telephone that is capable of answering multiple telephone calls at the same time. Conferencing services also include advanced features such as call recording, audience polls and surveys, in addition to the basic call conferencing facility.

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How to host a conference call

It is not that difficult to learn how to host a conference call. It is definitely something that you have to learn if you want to conduct a successful teleconferencing for your business. The best way for effective telephone conferencing is to first have the basic outline put together and then flesh out the details as it is required for each individual call.

To start phone conferencing, participants dial the number given by the conferencing services provider. A conference bridge connects everyone to a single teleconference. Depending on the nature and size of your business, the volume of conference calls expected in a month and the kind of conferencing facilities that you need, you can choose from the different conferencing solutions available.

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How to get free conference calls

Conference calls have now become so much a part of today’s business scenario that it is difficult to imagine that just a few years ago, people found it difficult to communicate simultaneously with others who were located in different parts of the globe. Call conferencing helps people connect to each other, no matter how many members there are, whenever they want, wherever they are located. That is the power of teleconferencing.

Most of the conferencing solutions offered by reputed conferencing service providers are easy to use and affordable. Telephone conferencing is so commonplace now that even free conference calls can be made through toll free numbers. Some conference call service providers give a toll free number that you can dial to start phone conferencing. Toll free conference calls can be done at a moment’s notice and there is no need to make a reservation.

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How does conference calling work?

Conference calls are nothing but telephone calls where three or more people converse at the same time. Most businesses these days use teleconferencing services to communicate with a large number of people at the same time without them having to physically be present in a single location. Conferencing services are changing the way the world communicates. There are many conferencing solutions available for businesses of all sizes – small, medium or large.

Telephone conferencing can be done using simple phone lines. So it is not that you need to have fancy and expensive equipment to make conference calls. Conference call service providers maintain something called the conference bridge to connect callers. It is a server that acts like a telephone that has the ability to answer multiple calls at the same time.

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Conference call guide

If you are making a conference call for the very first time and feel nervous, don’t worry about it. If you follow these guidelines you will be teleconferencing like an expert in no time.

First of all, a quick brief about what telephone conferencing is all about. A teleconference is nothing but a telephone call where you speak to three or more people at the same time. Vendors providing conferencing services host something called a conference bridge which is basically a server that has the capability to connect multiple telephone lines at the same time. There are many call conferencing solutions available to suit any budget or volume of calls.

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Audio conference call benefits

Conference calls seem to the preferred means of communication for most businesses today. And with good reason too. Through teleconferencing you can reach out and communicate with people who are located anywhere in the world. Conferencing services use something called the conference bridge that callers dial into to connect to the teleconference in progress. Depending on the size and nature of your business there are many conferencing solutions that you can choose from.

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If we all saved £11 per call…

A quick analysis of our CDRs (Call Statistics) for February shows the average conference call duration was 27 minutes and 9 seconds.

OK, so that’s a pretty interesting number in itself but when you translate that to the cost of dialling an equivalent “free” conference call service hosted on an 08 number from a mobile phone, it represents £10.80 per person, per call. So, if there were five people on your last 30 minute conference call, all dialling in from mobiles, let’s hope you saved yourselves £54 by using WHYPAY?

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Conference bridge

A conference bridge is what you call the equipment that makes it possible to converge a number of audio and video connections to a single destination. The conference bridge receives inbound signals from the telephone switch and confirms the same with a return signal. It is a conference bridge that makes it possible for conference calls to be conducted for any number of locations, with any number of connections.

A conference bridge is basically a device that connects multiple circuits to make a conference call. They are also available for key telephone systems and PBX systems.

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Telephone conferencing

Telephone conferencing is one of the best collaboration tools available for businesses today. There are times when it may not be enough to just send an email, you just have to talk to the people concerned. This is when telephone conferencing comes into play.

Imagine a scenario where you need vital feedback on a presentation that you have put together not only in terms of just the content but also on the delivery. If your colleagues are scattered all over the world, which is how most businesses are nowadays, through telephone conferencing you can receive valuable input from them no matter where they are situated.

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