Toll-based free audio conferencing service
All RHUB appliances under warranty include an audio conference call service at
no extra cost to you. You may decide to use the RHUB audio
conferencing service or
choose your own audio conferencing method.
The RHUB audio conferencing service provides toll-based numbers
in San Jose, California (Silicon Valley) and in UK that allow all meeting
attendees to participate in the audio conference. Participants
are then charged their standard long-distance rate for calling
this toll-based number, just as if they made a regular
long-distance call. Participants dialing the
UK number will be charged at 4.3 pence per minute by their
telephone service providers. RHUB does not charge anything for
the audio conferencing services.
Values
The market value for toll-based audio conferencing service is
$500/year or more per meeting room. For a TM-200 6-in-1 web
conferencing appliance with
two meeting rooms that costs less than $1,000, the value of the
audio conferencing service from RHUB is $1,000 per year. That is,
the TM-200 pays for itself in one year based only on the audio
conferencing feature.
Reliability
We know how critical audio conferencing is. Almost all web
conferencing service providers offer free audio conferencing.
However, to save costs, most of them use "free audio
conferencing" services that cost nothing to them. Those "free
audio conferencing" services direct calls to small telecom
vendors located in the Midwest of the US. These telecom vendors
are allowed to charge higher termination fees to telephone
companies. Because of that, more and more telephone companies
block your calls and your attendees' calls to these free audio
conferencing services. As a result, with inferior “free audio
conferencing” services you will probably experience attendees
that cannot join your audio conferences.
RHUB does not save costs at the expense of having certain
attendees being unable to join the audio conference. RHUB
provides you with a reliable audio conferencing service.
Coming improvements
The coming improvements in our audio conferencing services
include:
- Integrate softphone based audio conferencing with
land-line audio conferencing so that attendees using
softphone or landline phones can talk together. The entire
voice conversation can be recorded with computer screen and
webcam video.
- Provide an integrated toll-free audio conferencing service
- Provide a very affordable integrated audio conferencing
service for international users (meeting hosts and
attendees). The costs will be close to that of domestic audio
conferencing for most countries.
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