Re: [DDN] international conference calls

[John Hibbs]

Brian: I am the imagineeer and chief conductor to Global Learn Day, 
now in it's ninth year. 19 of the 24 hours of this event come from 
real time articipants outside of the United States. We use VOIP very 
successfully, provided by talking communities.com. We also use the 
telephone bridged through a nice conference system provided by 
www.mrconference.com. We bridge the Net to the phone and the phone to 
the net using some easy and very cheap devices.

Now this does not answer the questions about international phone 
calls, so let me address that.

In those few cases where our speakers cannot use talking communities, 
and want to speak over the phone, we rarely have complaints about the 
international cost of their call to our telephone conference center. 
But in those rare cases, we and the speakers work hard to find very 
cheap phone cards. Rarely does it cost more than 20 U.S. cents per 
minute from almost anywhere in the world. Given that very few talk on 
the phone for more than an hour, this means a cost to the speaker of 
about US$12.00  - less than the cost of the taxi from most downtowns 
to the airport.

We have not had too much luck with Skype. In fact we have some 
problems bridging it. I don't think we will have much trouble using 
www.talkingcommunities.com - which now allows Mac OSX platforms.

I can probably get www.talkingcommunites.com free.
John Hibbs
http://www.bfranklin.edu/

At 9:03 AM -0400 4/12/05, Brian Russell wrote:
I'm having a large group conference call to work on PodcasterCon. We 
have folks all around the world who want to participate.

I tried using Skype conference call with five people and it just 
didn't work. Sounded TERRIBLE. Plus there is some difference between 
the mac version and the pc version.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to hold a international conference 
call on the CHEAP?

We can't afford a toll free number and cheap cell phone minutes are 
obviously only good in your nation.

Thanks!
-Brian R.
p.s. we want an AUDIO conversation to record
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