[rastoma]

I need to setup a conferencing service for a small niche group, but are located in various places across the the country.

There is a service that offers this and I'm sure they are using VoIP tech. For $15/month they allow up to 10 participants, unlimited use with local numbers in most cities. I don't see how they can do that. What am I missing?

I know there are some free conferencing services out there but you have to call their one phone number.

Even if I use the free conferencing services out there, I've checked on buying just DID's in each city that this organization needs, but there's always a limit on mins and figuring just FOUR participants on the minimum usage that they would need would cost $24/month (MY COST).

Is there a way to get DID's in a city that include unlimited FORWARDING mins to another number? That's the only way I can see how this other company can do it.

I would also be interested in doing the conferencing in house as well instead of forwarding to another service.

Any suggestions?

[boatman]

VoIP SIP phone users can conference for free using the Gizmo5 conference system. Persons on SIP networks other than Gizmo5 can connect to that conference system via Sipbroker codes. Persons who can call PSTN numbers can connect via one of the SIPbroker PSTN access numbers.

[rastoma]

Thank you for the information, I'll look into it.

But this still doesn't solve the issue of having local access numbers in the entire US, and how this other company (actually one man working out of his house), can offer full A-Z numbers, up to 10 connections per account for $15/month, unlimited use.

Also the organization does not have VoIP phones in their various facilities.