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Just sitting on a conference call to the UK with 3 Xero staff - one at Waimarama (hee hee), one in Hamilton and one neck deep in snow in the UK Midlands; and a business partner we are working with. We had a normal international conference call number set up and started the call.
On the conference call we are paying for 4 legs – 2 of those from the UK to New Zealand. The call quality was atrocious. Quiet, echo’s and every 4th or 5th word dropping out. It was very frustrating as we just couldn’t sell.
Our UK guy suggested we drop the call and move to Skype. The partner was on a normal landline so he dialed them using Skype out, then conference called us in over Skype. I didn’t realize you could loop in both Skype and PSTN calls. The call quality was outstanding and it was essentially free.
Looking around the Skype site, for €8.95/month you can have unlimited global calling to landlines, including NZ.
Up until now we’ve used Skype mainly internally. Now we’ll use Skype as our primary external conferencing tool.
http://www.skype.com/intl/en/allfeatures/conferencecall
10:54, 18.01.2010
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12:01, 18.01.2010
Our team is deciding at the moment whether to go Messenger or Skype. Putting it to the vote has bubbled Skype up to the top.