Review Of At&t Conference Calling- Does It Go Beyond The Name?
An ATT conference calling service allows a customer to hold a teleconference without making a reservation. Now, teleconferencing or conference calling has taken off in a big way, riding on the almost insatiable need for businesses and individuals to hold telephone meetings, as against the traditional two-way telephone conversations.
For the uninitiated, conference calling is different from 3-way calling. In the latter service, which usually comes free, the caller puts one person on hold, hits the flash button, and dials out another number. But a conference calling service allows a person to hold meetings with up to 20 or 30 persons, with different participants enjoying varying levels of interactivity.
The cost and time advantages of conference calling are obvious - businesses can now set up client and marketing meetings without having employees jump on planes at short notice and travel all over the globe, and without going through the hassles of arranging airplane and hotel tickets. And lower costs help compress the cost of running a business in today's highly competitive global arena.
Once you plan to avail of an ATT conference calling service, all you got to do is subscribe to the service online, by completing a simple application form. The ATT conference calling service offers several innovative features: Reservationless Automatic Dial-In, Operator Dialed teleconference, Operator Assisted Dial-In, and Web Meeting. The biggest draw about the ATT conference calling service is that it is highly user-friendly. The customer gets a single dial-in number and access code, which can be used to access audio conference calling or Web conference calling services. Also, there are not set-up fees. The call quality is good - something very important when you are talking business with potential partners half way around the globe - and there are other add-on features offered, such as operator-assisted dial in, toll-free number etc. The personal dial in number means an ATT conference calling service customer can set up a call without going through the hassle of contacting customer service. The Web Meeting Service now offered to customers of ATT conference calling service adds a whole new layer of interactivity to the traditional conference call. Participants of a conference call using this service can collaborate real-time over the Net, as long as they have an Internet-connected PC and a Web browser. An operator-dialed teleconference takes a lot of hassles away from the tedious job of setting up call. In this case an ATT conference calling service operator will dial out each participant, including the host, and add them to the call. The ATT conference calling service now comes feature loaded - mostly free of cost - to make the teleconferencing experience more pleasurable than ever. Conference calling services are variously priced, depending on the features availed of. A recent addition to this bouquet of offerings by conference calling providers is VoIP, where the voice and other signals are changed into data packets and sent over the Internet. This means telephone line charges, which are a major component of services such as ATT conference calling, are done away with. Of course, this comes at a price - the voice quality is not as good as services that use telephone lines. Still, there are situations where such quality compromises can be made and cheap conference calling using VoIP is fast catching up.
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