Vapps adds power to Skype conferencing

By Vivek Puri | October 24th, 2006 at 10:34 pm ET         

Highspeedconferencing.com from Vapps has introduced a new service where users with Skype as well as regular phone can join multi-user conference calls. If you are using the conference calling feature of Skype, you are limited to having at most 5 users in the call. With this new service from Vapps you can have up to 500 people attending the call at the same time.

Best part is that the service is free if you call using Skype. Else all you need to pay for is the long distance call to the 712 area code conference call number, in case you are calling from regular telephone(for more details about companies using 712 area code, checkout Alec Saunders post). If you are looking for additional features like recording your calls, Q&A mode (hand-raising) you can get the High Speed Conferencing Premium for just $4.95/month/room, payable through PayPal.

Vapps had earlier announced conference calling feature for Yahoo IM which I had discussed here. Besides Skype and Yahoo, Vapps also powers Gizmo Project’s conference calling feature. Jajah had also introduced conference calling for its users but is not a free service.

Links:
Highspeedconferencing.com 

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