Conference Calls Unlimited | Accessing the Conference Call
Is the Unlimited Flat Rate Conference Call plan for you ? Access is NOT a toll free number for you or your participants! There are many reasons why customers enjoy this plan even though it's not a toll free access plan:   Customers love the economics of being able to host multiple monthly conference calls and pay only one monthly flat fee and pay no conference call bridge fees.  Customers simply want to lock-in a predefined monthly conference calling cost and it's incidental that the callers dial an out-of-state access number.  If customers know that their conference call participants have access to a flat rate digital line service, cable phone service or other Voice Over the Internet service or cell phone, this plan is a big cost saver. Any of these services most likely offer unlimited long distance calling built-in. Therefore a toll free number is not required. In addition, the location of the out-of-state bridge access number becomes irrelevant.  The customer might already reimburse their employees or associates for monthly long distance charges. So why pay a premium to add the cost of 'toll free access' to regular intra company conference calls or calls where offering a 'toll free' number to the partcipants may not be necessary.  Some new customers may be testing a new business concept and want an inexpensive conference call plan with unlimited flat rate usage. In other words, a budget saver for a new business.  Some customers feel it is not necessary or appropriate to pay for the bridge access of the conference call for the participant. If your Participants dial-in using a Cell Phone 95% or more of conference call participants own a cell phone which usually include free state-to-state long distance calling. So phone calls are free for them whether they dial a local number or a phone number anywhere in the country. If your conferees typically use a cell phone to access your conference calls, chances are good that they will have 'nationwide long distance' built into their monthly cell phone plan. In this case, it would not make any difference to them whether they used a toll free access number or a standard toll telephone number, there would be no long distance cost to dial a long distance number. Cell phone users may have the minutes deducted from their monthly plan allotment. However, using the free nights and weekend time frame works well for many participants using a cell phone to participate in a conference call. Some cell phone users may have 'unlimited' use cell phone plans. AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile favorite number plans These plans give users free calling to 5 (or more depending on the plan) numbers of their choosing. T-Mobile has long advertised its MyFaves plan, Verizon has it's Friends and Family plan and AT&T also has a plan that permits a wireless subscriber to call up to five favorite numbers with no fees. Many of our customers report that they use their cell phones to conference with their associates and simply set up their assigned conference call bridge access phone number as one of their favorites. Therefore no airtimes fees when used in this fashion. Unlimited Long Distance Plan Users Most local phone companies offer calling plans that provide for free voice calls throughout the U.S. If a participant has an 'unlimited long distance' plan on their home or office phone line and dials the assigned access number. It would be equivalent to toll free number, there would be no long distance costs for the participant. How customers access our 'unlimited' flat rate conference call plan without paying long distance charges. Many local phone companies across the U.S. now offer 'nationwide' calling for a relatively small flat monthly fee. With a nationwide calling plan, you can call any of our bridge numbers and not pay any long distance charges or per minute rates. Using a cell phone with nationwide calling, although 'airtime' minutes would be deducted from the cell phone account, no long distance charges would apply if the account has the 'nationwide' long distance feature, which most do. Many Canadian customers report the widespread availability of 'unlimited' Canadian calling plans to call the U.S. lower 48 states as part of their monthly long distance calling plan. Using Skype or another unlimited VoIP provider to dial-in. If you reimburse employees for their monthly long distance expense, it is still much cheaper to use the 'unlimited flat rate conference call' plan than a 'toll free' plan because it's unlimited and toll free plans are always 'by the minute'. Accessing the Flat Rate Unlimited Plan from Canada Because of widespread availability in Canada, many of our Canadian customers are using unlimited calling plans. This permits our Canadian users to access our unlimited flat rate conference call plan without incurring any long distance fees from Canada. Using Skype We have some customers that dial-in to our conferencing bridge using Skype. This also works well in cases where the participant may be in another country. Click to view the 'toll free' bucket of minutes plan, or the toll free 'pay as you go' (by the minute) plan. Many customers subscribe to national long distance plans that permit state-to-state calls with no extra long distance charges, as a consequence, Toll free access is much less important than it used to be. We designed this plan for those customers that can dial a standard U.S. telephone number (out-of-state) without incurring long distance fees from a long distance carrier, cell phone provider or Digital Internet phone service provider. Most of the Internet digital phone service providers in the U.S. including, cable, and other VoIP plans offer free included nationwide long distance calls. Therefore dialing an out-of-state phone number is not a problem and has no extra long distance cost. Many U.S. local phone companies offer unlimited U.S. long distance calling so dialing to an out-of-state access number will have no extra per minute charges for the caller. Many cell phone plans offer unlimited use plans or 'free nights and weekends' as well as included nationwide long distance calling -again no toll free number is necessary. top	Customers that use this Unlimited 'Flat Rate Conference Call' plan do not care that the access number is not local because of the extremely favorable economics of the plan. One flat monthly fee enables you to host unlimited conference calls throughout the month and pay no per minute bridge fees.   Unlimited Flat Rate Conference Calls - Sign Up Form   Unlimited Flat Rate Conference Call Plans » View Monthly Plans » How it Works » Questions » Plan Benefits » Flat Rate Plan Specifications » Access the Flat Rate Plan » Reasons to Use It » Optional Live Conference Viewer   More Conference Call Plans
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