Comments on: How to Teleconference for Free

By: Video Conferencing Setup

Video Conferencing Setup — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:30:22 +0000

I read the news about video conferencing been installed in hotels. This is very useful for Diplomats and VIPs to keep them up to date with their routine work back at home.

By: EJ Wisher

EJ Wisher — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:48:00 +0000

SKYPE is pretty horrible agreement there for sure. One thing to remember about the free or so called free conference services there are often long distance fee’s to call the dial-in number , and users should expect to pay the long-distance rates for the length of the call.

By: Tammy Lenski

Tammy Lenski — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:34:43 +0000

Hi, Marj – That’s a bit of a hassle, isn’t it? I’m due to be on a conference call to China later this morning and two of us decided yesterday not to use Skype because of the dropping problem. We just don’t want to have to keep re-connecting when we’ve got one hour for an important call.

By: Marj

Marj — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:10:33 +0000

I agree with Tammy. I have recently been on a Skype conference and at one time or another lost them. Unfortunately, I can’t get them back they connect but can’t Talk. I end up using Skype out minutes and calling them on their land / cell line.

By: Dr. Tammy Lenski

Dr. Tammy Lenski — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:11:28 +0000

Good evening, Massimo, thanks for stopping in. I can tell you why I haven’t yet been willing to recommend Skype for business teleconferencing, though I’m a Skype user for one-on-one calls: It’s not predictable enough for me yet. I’ve been on too many teleconference calls, as a participant, when Skyped-in participants suddenly disappeared because Skype dropped the call.

When that problem improves, then I’ll endorse it for business use. Would love to see that happen, as I agree that there’s much about Skype that is amazing.

By: Massimo DAmico

Massimo DAmico — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:25:57 +0000

Good day Tammy,
Why not to use SKYPE and its new feature: “SkypeCast”?

It’s 100% free of charge, it’s popular, your callers pay zero fees and you can take up to 99 people on the line. Isn’t it an amazing service?

Massimo D’Amico

By: Mark Riffey

Mark Riffey — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:58:53 +0000

Tammy,

A FYI about these free services: free conferences are made possible by using a rule that allows small phone exchanges to pass fees on to the LD companies. At least one of these, if not all of them, run from a small exchange in Iowa. The exchange passes on fees to ATT (etc) and that’s how they get paid.

While I dont really mind seeing ATT getting gigged for a change, I dont expect it to happen forever. As such, be aware that with ATT’s (and so on) powerful lobbyists at work, it’s likely to go away someday.

One other things: some carriers have blocked the free conference exchanges so that cell callers cannot reach them because they dont want to pay the fees.

This can impact conference users and you dont want to find this out at the last minute before your scheduled conference.

Mark