I haven't tested this out yet, but FreeConference.com looks potentially useful to those of you who work at companies that provide long-distance service for work-related calls, but don't offer easy conference calling that lets participants dial in (like my university).
In order for conference participants to reach our service, each one must call a telephone number. For Reservationless Standard and Web-Scheduled Standard conferences this number may be local or long distance, depending on their location. The only costs for these type of conference calls are whatever long distance rates are charged by each individual conference participant's long distance carrier (Sprint, MCI, AT&T, etc.). We do not require the use of any specific carrier, nor do we know what rates you pay on your calling plan.
For Web-Scheduled Premium 800 conference calls the dial-in number will be a toll-free number. The conference Organizer will pay $0.10 per minute for each Participant in the conference. Since the Participants in the conference will use a toll-free number they will not pay anything to use our service.
[via Lifehacker]
Posted by johndan at March 29, 2005 10:49 PM | TrackBackHey Johndan, GE Corporate Information Services uses this for pretty much all of our conference calls. I haven't had a problem with it yet, it works pretty well.
Posted by: Mike McCullen at March 30, 2005 09:37 AM