Toll Free Conference Calling Facts You Should Know

Do You Need A Toll Free Number or Freeoptions to companies that offer a 1-800 dialing number
Conference Provider?provider.
If you're looking for a toll free conference service, doSetting up An International Toll Free Line
you mean a 1-800 (for US, 0-808 in Britain, 0120 inIt may be obvious to most people that not all 1-800
Japan etc) conference number or do you mean anumbers can be accessed from outside the US, but
"free" conference service provider?less obvious that some numbers can only be
If you're only looking for a free service provider,accessed from the state assigned. In other words, if
Google online and you should not have any problemsyou have a "California only" 1-800 number, you may
finding free service providers from the search results.not be able to dial in from New York. Be sure to
The majority of calls are free until they either 1) reachdouble check that your assigned number places no
certain number of callers dialing in or 2) start addinggeographical limitation.
advance features. The advance setting includes audioIf your toll free number restricts international calls, you'd
recording, web conferencing, and finally the "toll freeneed to set up a forwarding service from a regular
number", which may or may not be provided freely.number to 1-800 number. This may sound strange, but
If you need an 1-800 number line (as in the case ofin some cases, that's the only way to accept
1-800 numbers), then here are some options.international callers. You would tell the international
Setting up A Separate Toll Free Number to Connectcallers to call non-800 numbers then forward incoming
One alternative to creating a toll free conferencecalls to your destination number, which is your 800
number is by setting up a separate forwarding service.conferencing number.
You can set up a 1-800, 1-888, 1-866 numbers at veryLast But Not Least
reasonable price today and all you need to do is toDon't forget to provide the callers with conferencing ID
forward the incoming calls to the conferencing line. Thisnumber to join the meeting if your calls require it.
way, you're not narrowing your service provider