Freeconferencing.com Now Publicly Available
Leader in On-demand Conference Calls Unveils First of its Kind Free Service Enabling Organizations to Control Mass One-to-Many Conference Calls
Long Beach, Calif. - May 18, 2009 -
Free Conferencing Corp, the leading provider of free conference calls, today
announced the public availability of FreeConferencing.com,
offering one-to-many conferencing with sophisticated host web-based channels - free
of charge. Following the successful beta test of the service, hosting over six million
minutes of conference calls with up to 1,000 call attendees, FreeConferencing.com
allows users the most call participants and greatest granular control of any free
conference call provider.
While it is increasingly critical that organizations stay in close contact with
their customers, many companies are also facing dramatic cuts in operating costs.
Reductions in business travel, in addition to more people working from home have
resulted in a widespread need for an easy and affordable way for large groups to
communicate remotely. By extending its award-winning free conference call service
to mass on-demand phone conferencing, FreeConferencing.com continues to lead the
industry in creating innovative technology that helps organizations cut the costs
of one-to-many conferencing, from internal meetings to online press conferences
and earnings calls. Numerous Fortune 500 companies, small and medium-sized businesses,
nonprofits, churches and community groups are using the service to collaborate and
conduct meetings at no cost.
With only a name and email address, FreeConferencing.com
provides instant, reservationless access to an unlimited number of 6-hour conference
calls with web-based host commands. From a computer screen, hosts can view all participants
and granularly control the call, including muting participants, locking the call,
recording the call and leading Q&A sessions.
Features Include:
Flash-Based Web Conferencing Application - Manage and monitor all participants and
aspects of the conference call in real-time on your PC or laptop.
Conference Call Preferences - Option to control standard conference call features,
including - setting caller count, exit and entry tones and disconnecting callers
if the host is not present or unable to make the conference call.
Caller Identification - Ability to set voice identification as well as an optional
entry and exit tone for callers joining and leaving the call.
Web-Based Recording, Muting and Call Disconnect - Record, mute or disconnect the
call from the host dashboard.
Active Speaker - Receive notification on the host dashboard when an individual is
speaking.
Download of Recorded Conference - Record conference calls and store archived calls
in your account for easy retrieval or reference.
Web-Based ConferencePlayback - Host can listen to the entire recorded call via the
web, with the ability to identify individual callers by time, allowing for easy
identification of specific participants.
"As the pioneers in free conference calls we are committed to providing high quality
features, excellent customer service and the best pricing models available," said
David Erickson, Founder of Free Conferencing Corp., which handles nearly 5 percent of
the world's conference call traffic.
"After a successful beta release, we have listened closely to the feedback of our
participants and, as a result, are able to offer our users the continued high quality
and affordability they have come to expect from Free Conferencing Corp."
Free Conferencing Corporation of America
Founded in 2001, Free Conferencing Corporation of America is the industry pioneer
and leading provider of collaborative communications solutions serving small to
large-sized businesses, communities and organizations. Free Conferencing Corporation's
pioneering all-digital network is built on proprietary media servers. Unlike other
VoIP-based services, Free Conferencing Corporation uses the PSTN (public switched
telephone network) to deliver unparalleled, high-quality audio conferencing services
at the best pricing models available.
