March 16, 2007

Cingular, Others, Blocking Free Conference Calls


In early March, according to this blog post by Paul Kapustka, and this blog post by Seth Godin, several phone companies are blocking cell phone and landline calls to conference calls through FreeConference.com and FreeConferenceCall.com. These companies include AT&T/Cingular, Sprint and Qwest.

This is a huge, big deal for many small business owners, who use these free conference call services to set up team meeting, group phone calls, mastermind groups, and teleclasses. I know many of my colleagues in the Coaching industry use these services for their teleclasses and group coaching calls.

If you use one of these free conference call services for your conference calls, be aware that some of your participants may not be able to access your conference call.

Note that Passion For Business does not use these free services for our teleconference lines, so this should not affect any of you calling in for our teleclasses or mastermind groups.