Drummond, they get a kickback from the telco on the long-distance call
costs. In the UK you can make money out this by having a "national rate"
number... everytime someone calls you, you get a penny a minute.
Paul
Drummond Reed wrote:
>Paul, thanks for the tip, I didn't know they had that option. (I still get
>asked all the time - and wonder myself - how do these guys DO it??)
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>=Drummond
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Fremantle [mailto:]
>Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:19 PM
>To: Drummond Reed
>Cc:
>Subject: Re: [chairs] OASIS IRC, and phone bridges
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>Drummond
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>You can also use freeconference for up to a 100 people with a reserved
>call and still no charge, as long as you dont need toll-free dial in.
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>Paul
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>Drummond Reed wrote:
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>>The XRI and XDI TCs also frequently used www.freeconference.com as our
>>bridge. It's received some press recently as a popular alternative to paid,
>>reservation-based services. Up to 25 participants can conference for up to
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>>hours with no reservation and at no cost (though a toll call).
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>>They have an upgrade to paid service for reservation-based calls, toll-free
>>numbers, or webconferencing.
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>>=Drummond
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: John M. Greacen [mailto:]
>>Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:10 PM
>>To: 'James Bryce Clark';
>>Cc:
>>Subject: RE: [chairs] OASIS IRC, and phone bridges
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>>The LegalXML Member Section TCs all use freeconference.com as our bridge.
>>It is free and we have never had a problem with the service.
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: James Bryce Clark [mailto:]
>>>Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:04 PM
>>>To:
>>>Cc:
>>>Subject: Re: [chairs] OASIS IRC, and phone bridges
>>>
>>> Thanks, Kelvin. Tech staff (principally IT manager Rob Figenbaum)
>>>gets the thanks for the iRC work. More to talk about, quite soon.
>>>
>>> On phones: global accessibility is a big concern for us also. On
>>>the
>>>other hand, our dues and infrastructure are a fraction of W3 --
>>>OASIS traditionally has been thin-client, fiscally and in other ways, by
>>>design. On the third hand, the economics of phone service fundamentally
>>>is
>>>changing.
>>> I know, from painful memory myself, that asking for and managing
>>>bridges is an annoyance. More acutely, is it a barrier? To what extent
>>>do
>>>other leaders on this list think that phone bridge economics is a gating
>>>issue for us? Is there a distinct issue for big vs. small TCs, or those
>>>with wider vs. narrower geographic dispersion?
>>>
>>> Regards JBC
>>>
>>>~ James Bryce Clark
>>>~ Director, Standards Development, OASIS
>>>~
>>>
>>>At 01:19 PM 9/22/2005, Kelvin Lawrence wrote:
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>>>>Jamie, I applaud you for doing this. I have found IRC very useful in the
>>>>W3C meetings I have attended. This is a good sep forward.
>>>>Related to this, are you making any progress towards having an OASIS
>>>>provided (does not need to be 800 number) phone bridge for TC meetings?
>>>>W3C also has this facility and it makes the life of the chair so much
>>>>easier (as opposed to having to keep asking for people to sponsor calls)
>>>>Cheers
>>>>Kelvin
>>>>WSS TC co-chair
>>>>Kelvin R. Lawrence
>>>>Distinguished Engineer & CTO, Emerging Internet Software Standards
>>>>Member of the IBM Academy of Technology
>>>>IBM Software Group. 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, TX 78758.
>>>>BLOG: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog.jspa?blog=730
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