When technology was just starting to spawn and grow; when its seeds were about to spread all over the world but were not still massive, we still had to talk on the telephone and afford big amounts of money for our bills. To talk from Argentina to China we had to use thousands of meters of cable, in the beginning of the nineties. It was impossible then to think about having simultaneous talks in which more than two people participated. It was even more difficult to see the possibility of making it possible for two people to talk to each other and see each other at the same time, what has now been possible thanks to the webcams and other applications that have been developed by enterprises all over the world. Would anyone had imagined, when the 90s were beginning, that Internet was going to produce all the revolution that has made, as regards information, circulation of information, transmision, and varieties of points from where it can be reached? Could people starting that decade figure out the changes that were coming up, the follow-ups of technological advances that we all were about to be witnesses of? I can bet nobody or almost nobody was even capable to depict something at least barely similar to what we are seeing today, in every place of the world. Today, you can assist to cheap conference calls without moving from your home, office, or place in which you are settled.with the help of what is technically called “convergence”, you can perfectly be in touch with another human being, from any point of the world and at the same time interact with him, see his or her gestures, attitude, even tones of his voice. Image and sound are combined, due to technological advances. Today, we can say that cheap conference call has become a commodity: it ‘s not anymore a revolution or something of the sort, it’s something that introduced a change, and that today any enterprise or big company uses it as a resource to give orders or advice to workers without having to meet them phisically in the same place. This saves time and, on top of that, money. Imagine that a head office of a financial enterprise has no means to waste money in locations and food, and drinks, to give to 200 employees, when the situation can be easily solved by arranging a conference call, meeting virtually and not having to deal personally with each of the particular circumstance of every employee. The advance of some resources, such as Skype, has allowed everyone to be able to practice cheap conference calls, be it for familiar meetings, work meetings or so. But skype is not the only company offering this kind of service. On the contrary, it’s just one of the pioneers: talktalk.co.uk, from united kingdom, aitelephone.com, from the US, as well as cheapconferencecall.net, conferencecall.com, and telejunctions.com, are only some of the thousands of enterprises giving the possibility of agreeing to a contract with this service. In general, prices are very low, as the real aim of each company is to win money with the quantity of people assuming to have cheap conference calls.

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