Conference call companies

[Chewbacca 7829]

Need to get conference call capability set up for my company.  Anyone have a good company that they like?

[solamente73 1147]

I use Spectrum VoIP (note - different from Spectrum cable) and their service includes conference call / bridge line capability.  They are based in DFW, and when researching VoIP solutions for my company, they provided the best value prop of all the VoIP providers I looked at.

If you’re currently using VoIP, your provider may already offer the capability - just check with them.  If not using VoIP... why not?

edit:  Wait, when you say your company do you mean the one you own of the one you work for?  I assumed own.

Edited August 14, 2018 by solamente73
Assumption

[Chewbacca 7829]

I mean the company i own.  Just using cell phones for forseeable future since all employees are remote so I don't have VOIP.

[blacklab 12064]

I've been using  

https://www.freeconferencecall.com/

for the last 10 years or so without any issues. It's free.

[Chewbacca 7829]

19 minutes ago, blacklab said:

I've been using  

https://www.freeconferencecall.com/

for the last 10 years or so without any issues. It's free.

Thanks.  If it's free, how do they make money?  

[blacklab 12064]

the way the phone companies work is they pay each other for calls. The originator phone company pays the receiving phone company some minuscule amount for each call. Most of the big ones such as At&t and sprint come close to balancing out and they just float it.

Company's like freeconferencecall set up a phone company in some shithole area of some shithole state. They don't have any customers other than themselves. They don't have any outgoing calls, so all calls are incoming, and they make money from the transfer fees from the other phone companies.

[Chewbacca 7829]

31 minutes ago, blacklab said:

the way the phone companies work is they pay each other for calls. The originator phone company pays the receiving phone company some minuscule amount for each call. Most of the big ones such as At&t and sprint come close to balancing out and they just float it.

Company's like freeconferencecall set up a phone company in some shithole area of some shithole state. They don't have any customers other than themselves. They don't have any outgoing calls, so all calls are incoming, and they make money from the transfer fees from the other phone companies.

Huh.  Didn't know that, but it makes me feel better about using a free company.  Thanks