Kennon
Teleconferences
hosted in the USA can mean high costs to
join them if you live in far away places like Australia.
However, I just got a hold of this insider tip that can save our
Aussie friends a significant amount of money on these
international calls.
Your local post office sells pre-paid 'PHONE CARDS." If you buy
one for as little as $20, you can use it to sit in on a 1-hour call
for approximately AUD$3.50. In fact, it's cheaper than calling STD
within Australia I heard!
The cost is automatically deducted from your pre-paid card. If
you don't choose this option, then just dial the international
dialling code ... 0011... before the number provided.
Thanks to Ted Ciuba for sending me this info that I could pass
along to the IPTers here.
Have a great day! And keep in touch with me about other
upcoming teleconferences and teleclasses!
Kennon :)
augirl
I
am just wondering whem these cards are used in telephone boxes and
also are the teleseminars during the night.
Because like most places in the world to go out to a phone booth at
night is just not on as we have bad people here to not like the old
days.
If they are during the day that would be fine provided no one else
wanted to use the phone box.
Also we can call interstate from 7pm to midnight for under three dollars.
:confused:
Kennon
Regarding
the timing of teleseminars, many of the ones here in
the US are at night, say, around 9PM Eastern. That means it's
probably around 1PM the next day in Australia. Other calls that
begin at 3PM Eastern would be at 7AM in Australia.
WillieC had started another thread on this board about converting
times for the purpose of knowing when teleseminars are going on
in your time zone.
As for the other questions raised, I'm not sure I understand them
or know the answer.
Kennon :)
jason_ga
There
are a couple of companies that offer cheap (well, cheaper) calling
rates if you want to call overseas from your home phone. Most offer
calls to the US for around between3 and 6 cents a minute, which isn't
too bad.
From what I understand you usually have to pre-pay with them, but
if you are calling overseas a lot it may be worth it.
Cheers,
Jason
John
Glube
Hi,
Why, with the comparative high cost of telephone long distance charges
versus the zero cost for the consumer in attending a conference using
voice over the internet for intimate groups, or a web cast allowing
for much larger groups do promoters continue to hold telephone seminars?
Is the problem connectivity - dial up versus broadband? Or is the
problem cost for the promoter?
Kind regards,
John Glube
Toronto, Canada
jason_ga
I
think its a couple of things.
Cost wise webcasts seem to be around the same as a telephone conference
(from what I've been able to find out), so I don't think that's really
an issue.
Some promoters don't know about webcasts, or don't know how to do
one, where as telephone conferences are more "familiar"
to them. So a few shy away because of that.
Turning it around, some people who might be interested in a regular
telephone conference might be turned off by a web cast, viewing it
as something that is "difficult" to listen to.
Plus there are a couple of webcast solutions that require you to install
software on your computer (and hence are PC only - not a problem for
98% of people, but us 2% don't like being left out :) )
Dialup vs broadband isn't always a problem - some solutions will work
ok with dialup. But not all, so again there is a barrier (perceived
or real) there.
I believe webcasts will become more common in the next year or two,
but the good 'ol phone conferences will still be more common for a
while yet.
Cheers,
Jason