Conference calling is a system of communication between various parties which works like a telephone call. There are three types of conference calling; web, video and audio conferencing. This service is very helpful for companies who have offices on various part of the World to communication regularly.

There disdvantages and advantages of having conference calls which has been outlined below.

One benefit of call conferencing is that it is cost effective. You will be able to invite more than one people to attend your meeting or presentation from various parts of the World other than doing it through the phone individually. Another big advantage of call conferencing is via video conferencing, which allows attendees to view the caller or vice versa, as it is always good to put a face to the voice.

However even after these advantages there are still some disadvantages by choosing call conferencingsuch as while choosing to do a audio conferencing some of the jokes or remarks can be misunderstood into something else by individuals as they are not able to see the facial expression of the conference caller. Another major disadvantage of audio conferencing is that the quality of the call lowers when more people are added to the conference call. One of the benefit of web and audio conferencing is the cost, these services are cheaper than use of video conferencing. Web communication is cheaper than the other services but it is very time consuming as you are communication via texts. Text based communcation in the past has caused a lot of misunderstand between different conferencing members.

Conference calling is one of the best ways of communication within the organisations but it also has its ups and downs.