I guess the cold war has really officially ended. Zip Conferencing now offers local number access for participants of your conference calls from Moscow and St. Petersburg. That’s right, you can access our conference calls from Russia.
The world continues to shrink and businesses continue to expand so it is only normal to have enough demand for conference call services in places all over the world including Russia. In fact there are participants on our conference calls from all corners of the globe. That is why over time we have continues to expand the coverage of our network to include access from every major city in the world. There are a couple of ways to access conference calls from outside the United States.
Toll Number Access – The most common way to access a conference call from outside the United States has always been by using the toll or local number provided with a conference call. That is because the toll free number is not accessible from outside the Untied States, but you can call a local number in the United States from anywhere. The one drawback to this type of access is that the participants have to pay the long distance charges to access the call from outside the Untied States. Which if it is an internal company call this may not be a bad thing, but you certainly don’t want a customer or prospect to have to pay to join your call.
International Local Access – Zip Conferencing provides access through local numbers in a number of large cites internationally. That way if a participant is in that city they simply have to call a local number in their city to get on a conference call in the United States. Thay way they also don’t need to pay any long distacne charges to access the conference call. It is just like any other local call to them.
International Toll Free Access – For participants who are not located in a major city that has a local access number, they can dial into the conference call using an International Toll Free access number. No matter where they are in that country they can dial the toll free access number in their country and not incur any charges to access the conference call. The only drawback to this service is that it is the most expensive way to access an international conference call.
The bottom line is that there are now many options on how to access a conference call from an international location. And now with the addition of Moscow and St. Petersburg, there are very few locations that do not have an access number.