Talk:Conference call/Archives/2012

History of Conference Calls

I would like to see more about the history of conference calls. Where, when, how was the technology and terminology developed, and get widespread usage. This was not in use during the early days of telephony. --PaulBHartzog 04:59, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Free Conference Calling

Hi,

This looks a very poor entry compared to web conferencing and video conferencing pages. I can contribute a major edit to this page and am looking for some feedback (encouragement?).

--TommyM 04:59, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

I have repeatedly tried to add content to this page about free conference calling and the debate/lawsuits over the use of long distance tricks to pay for it. But someone keeps deleting it.

User:DeanVesuvio —Preceding comment was added at 21:48, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

You have been repeatly trying to promote Rondee service. Two warnings have been placed on your talk page. Please review WP:EL and WP:COI. The free conference calling is tangentially relevant to the article and introducing another tangentially related citation to lawsuits over the use of long distance tricks is not relevant. Calltech (talk) 22:57, 12 December 2007 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by PaulBHartzog (talk • contribs)

There's obviously been some sort of fight over putting free conference calling on this page. I'm not sure why, as free conference calling is, by minutes used, the most popular type of conference calling service in the US. Is the right thing to do to add a new topic called "Free Conference Calling" and link it to this one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.169.21.227 (talk) 23:55, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

This discussion is not about putting information up about free conferencing. Its about a continued effort by a user who wishes to promote a particular company (Rondee) both directly through links or though references that promote this company. User DeanVesuvio has already been blocked once for these continued attempts and now a new anon user is doing the same. Calltech (talk) 12:23, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

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Calltech - The conference call business is extremely competitive and (after reading the External Links guidelines) wanted to know if it was permissible for the article to state,

"Large telecommunications providers such as AT&T, Embarq (formerly Sprint), Verizon and other large to medium conferencing service providers maintain a dominant position in the conferencing niche; servicing many of the World's biggest brands. However, the Internet and improved global VoIP networks have helped to significantly reduce the barrier of entry into this niche."

In other words, how does AT&T, Embarq and Verizon merit mention, when there are other companies in the business that aren't allowed? Wouldn't it be fairer to eliminate all the company names? In fact, there are companies out there who do more conferencing than they do, paid, free, and otherwise. Sorry this may not be formatted correctly, but I'm not a techie. 74.78.202.79 (talk) 03:31, 18 November 2008 (UTC)