| How we communicate continues to evolve so as | | | | services, call recording and call transcription. But |
| to adapt to today's changing communications | | | | usually these additional features have charges per |
| requirements. One of the recent innovations is | | | | service. |
| conducting meeting over the telephone. Many | | | | This type of business conferencing service can |
| telecommuters, free lancers, remote sales offices, | | | | support 1-3,000 participants, but there should be |
| company vendors are turning to advanced | | | | an additional feature for orderly discussion. For |
| telephone conferencing as their communication | | | | large conferences having limited speakers to |
| vehicles. It is not just an ordinary telephone | | | | deliver the subject matter, the following features |
| conferencing as it comes with more features | | | | are used: |
| such as: | | | | Polling - enables participants to vote on |
| Conference management | | | | specific issues. This is done through pushing a |
| Sub-conferencing - enables chosen | | | | touch-tone button, participants can agree to or |
| participants to communicate privately within the | | | | reject proposals in the conference. The operator |
| call. Sub-conference attendees can afterwards get | | | | will then tally the votes in real time. The summary |
| back to the main conference. Usually, many | | | | of the result can be printed out if necessary. |
| sub-conferences can be done within any one call. | | | | Broadcasting - the action only allows |
| Call monitoring - it guarantees that | | | | selected participants to speak to all the |
| operator is always available throughout the | | | | participants while the others are muted. This |
| conference. It enables participants to join in the | | | | prevents conferences to be disturbed by |
| midst of the discussion, or for other features to | | | | inevitable background voices from the majority of |
| be accessed. | | | | the participants. |
| Roll call - allows the moderator and the | | | | Question and answer - makes an |
| rest of the participants of the conferences know | | | | organized exchange of information through |
| who is joining the conference. An operator | | | | allowing participant to signal via phone when they |
| conducts roll call, asking each participant for his or | | | | want to ask something. The operator then calls |
| her name. | | | | on particular participant for their input. |
| Faxing - this enables the head to give | | | | Many people are now adopting advanced |
| out relevant materials for the meeting. A set of | | | | telephone conferencing services because of its |
| relevant documents are faxed to each participant | | | | high quality. You can choose between |
| according to the signal of the moderator. | | | | reservationless conferencing and operator-assisted |
| Aside from these, advanced telephone | | | | phone conferencing. |
| conferencing services also include translation | | | | |