Toll Free Conference Calls are Free to the Caller

Wondering why you would opt for the expense of toll free conference calls when free conference calling plans are available? We've all seen the ads for free conference calls and flat rate conference call plans. While these plans make sense in many situations, they can also be detrimental in other situations. Toll free conference calls overcome the problems of free services.

You may not realize it but "free" conference calling is not free to you and it's not free to your participants. With free conference calls, a single phone number is issued for the call. As you know, a single phone number is local only to those callers located within that phone number's local calling area. Anyone outside that area will have to pay long distance charges.

This may not be a big deal to your suppliers who expect to incur some costs in order to service your account, but it could be a big deal to those you provide service to such as your customers, or prospective clients. After all, your customers expect you to incur the costs related to servicing them. Let's say that you're an ad executive who's about to lose a big account and you know that holding a global conference call with the decision makers could potentially save the account. How do you think these important customers would feel if they had to pay long distance charges in order to hear your plea? This is definitely a situation where toll free conference calls are a must and essential if the participants are calling into an international conference call.

With a toll free conference call provider, you can set up the conference call (USA based or based internationally) with local toll free access numbers for all countries involved in the call. For example, your callers in Canada would dial a toll free Canada conference call phone number while those in Italy would dial an Italian toll free number. To the callers, the call is completely free. When they dial their local numbers, call forwarding is used to connect the callers to your conference.

As the conference calling host, you will pay the call forwarding and long distance fees associated with each individual call. You'll pay per minute, per caller. For example, if your Canada conference call costs 10 cents per minute and you have two Canadian callers on the line for ten minutes each, you'd be responsible for paying for twenty minutes at 10 cents per minute. Likewise, you'd also pay the charges for you other callers at their countries' per minute rates.

Just about any conference call provider you find offers some sort of online calculator that allows you to estimate the cost of conference calls. While you must pay the cost of toll free conference calls, you may be surprised at just how affordable holding a conference call USA or global conference call can be. Do the math, factor in the importance of providing your customers with a convenient, free conference calling method, and take advantage of the low per minute rates available today.

If you need to offer quality toll free conference calls, look no further than aitelephone.com. With toll free rates as low as 3.9 cents per minute, exceptional call quality, support for hundreds of countries, and flexible conference calling plans (including flat rate and pay-as-you-go plans with no long term contracts), AIT is your one-stop global conference call provider.