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From: eli@pws.bull.com (Steve Elias)
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Subject: Conference Calling - Try the Local CO!
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Date: 29 Aug 90 03:41:43 GMT
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If you're into conference calling, methinks it would be worth your
money to sign up for three-way calling with your local CO.  The
quality of conferences through the local CO is *outstanding* in my
experience.  it's about $2 or $3 per month here in the Beantown area.

Also, with this method of conferencing, you can choose the carrier for
each leg of the conference.  For example, if one of the conferees is
in one of those extremely rare areas :) which don't get good Sprint
service, you can use ATT to dial that person, while using Sprint to
dial the other conferee.


eli


[Moderator's Note: And by each person in the call having three-way
calling of their own, additional parties can be added, with each of
the two people you call responsible for adding one more, etc.  Also,
if your multi-party conference call is strictly local in scope, try
your local telco operator. They can also handle conference calls
provided everyone is local.   PAT]