A brief guide to the different possibilities of conference call services

We have written a fine amount of articles rounding this topic. We have seen the advantages of conference call centers, the possibilities and opportunities provided by toll free conference callings, and the potential that conferences give to the telecommunication and interactions among peers of an enterprise, family, or simply between friends that are abroad and far from each other but that won’t to share some time together, taking advantage of the Internet and its facilities and features. In this short article, I will try to sum up the most facilities and different options you have when contacting a conference call service, so as to let you know with what margins of prices you will be handling. To make it easier to understand, I think it better to list every item and give a brief explanation, sometimes an example will be added to ease up the comprehension of each service.

1. Traditional conference call services: in this type of conference, there are no secrets. It is the most common and cheapest option: you can have a communication between peers, just as if it were a phone call but with the difference of having lots of people connected and interacting at the same time, simultaneously. It is the basic standard for any service and as told the cheapest you can choose. You can have services with flat rates, with bulk minutes or with monthly payments (see other articles of mine to go deeply into this topic).

2. VoIP conference services: in this case, a new multimedia device is added: video. Here, you will interact with your peers, not only at the same time and via your voices, you will have the possibility to enhance the communication making use of a webcam. This can be very useful when participants have to share visual information of any kind.

3. Massive conference services: added to the two possibilities mentioned before, there is a third point in which some enterprises are going: the opportunity to communicate with a huge number of people.

(to be continued...)