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.

In the UK 0800 numbers are known as non geographic telephone numbers which is free of charge to call. They are normally used by Charities all over the UK for helpline and fundraising.

0800 numbers are essential for product based businesses as they are toll free lines. So how do 0800 numbers help businesses, some of the examples are as follows: 0800 number encourages useful feedback
from your customers.

As a free number you could potentially increase the number of business.Can also be used as live answering servicesCan use call data to find out moreabout your customersThese numbers are used to support promotional campaigns, marketing activities and loyalty programmes. These numbers can see track an increase in enquiries from outside of the actual location.Call management systems can be easily used to smarten up the way they deal with their clients or calls.

Provides an opportunity for businesses to choose a number which their customers can easily remember.Calls from mobiles is one of the biggest disadvantage that a non geographic numbers have these days. As calls from mobile phones are increasing day by day, currently a call costs upto 20p per minute.

Whereas other
than 0800 numbers there are other premium rate numbers than 0800, there are other which businesses use, for examples; 0844, 0871 and 0845 numbers and these days as we move forward towards
new technologies, there is a new VOIP telephony systems, well not that new anymore but reletively new to some businesses.