Phone Conferences Via Web Conferencing

In a nutshell, phone conferences via web conferencing are conferences wherein your voice travels thru the internet, via your web conferencing service, instead of just purely thru regular phone lines. Some services include built-in or integrated phone conferences. You can even have an audio-only meeting if you like. While such services are excellent in many respects, keep in mind though that they don't come cheap.

This form of phone conferencing is also known as integrated telephony or integrated VoIP. VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol, a part of a whole technology that uses the internet to deliver telephone calls. VoiP allows you to call anyone on the planet minus the long distance charges. It is also referred to as Voice over the Internet.

There are a number of software or services online that offer free telephone calls. All possible because of VoIP. This feature alone is so invaluable that without web conferencing, some small businesses, even medium ones are forced to spend on travel and domestic/international call surcharges.

Imagine being able to hold a meeting and not think about incurring a single charge ever beyond what you're already paying for internet access. This is better than cheap or affordable audio conferencing. It's free!

While a considerable number of organizations are content with interactive chat, many are those that prefer a voice connection during an online meeting. There are no longer excuses. Because of the world wide web, you can have a voice conversation using internal or external microphones for web conferencing.

With this better than cheap kind of audio conferencing, why isn't everyone doing it. Well since your voice will travel thru the internet, a lot of factors can affect its timely delivery. Factors such as connection speed, time of the day and computer speed will greatly influence the quality of voice transmission.

Unlike the regular international telephone system which is 100% responsive, many argue that they end up having a difficult conversation with each other. Aside from your voice coming in "choppy" both ways, there's also this annoying delay that causes parties to always inadvertently cut in to each other. For some, this unresponsiveness alone is enough to give up phone conferences via web conferencing.

But for a growing list of small and medium size businesses, organizations and even individuals, this limitation is minor. As the internet continues to move away from dial-up internet connections and computers becoming more powerful than ever, phone conferences via web conferencing performance will sooner or later be at par with old fashioned conference call systems. After all, phone conferences via web conferencing is better than cheap. It's free.