How to Choose Webinar Audio Options

Audio communication is a key component of the webinar puzzle. When selecting the best option to interact with your webinar audience, consider some crucial factors. There exist 3 ways of providing high-end audio quality during a webinar. 

•   VoIP
•      Teleconferencing
•      Simulcast (teleconferencing and VoIP combines)

Let`s have a detailed look at these options.

• VoIP

VoIP is a budget-friendly option not only for making international calls, but also for conducting webinars. It supports one-to-many format peculiar to webinars, and its major advantage is the possibility to capture audio automatically with the recording. However it`s use for webinars may be inexpedient if participants don`t have computer speakers, headsets or the bandwidth on their side is too low.

Advantages of Moving to a VoIP Phone System

Sooner or later companies start thinking of upgrading their current phone system. Migrating to a VoIP phone system is a smart decision due to advantages this technology has over regular phone systems. Let us see what advantages VoIP can offer enterprises.

Business managers and owners think it`s time to upgrade their phone system. The smartphones they have do so much, while the phones on the desks of their workers just call and ring. At best they can direct the caller to the right extension.

What if the desk phones in your office could be smarter and enabled with more capacities? A new phone system called VoIP include the following advantages:

• ·         Cheapest international calls
• ·         No upfront investments
• ·         Intellect to redirect incoming calls to appropriate extensions
• ·         Informing about employees location and assist in reaching them
• ·         Additional options such as auto attendant included free of charge
• ·         Connecting desk phones anywhere, like branch offices, home, or on the road
• ·         Easy audio and video conference calls
• ·         Treating distant area codes as local for calling party

All these benefits, and even more, are available in a VoIP-based phone system. With the advent of the Internet society has rapidly changed. None of the previous technologies, including, telephone, radio and television, has contributed to the society transformation to such extent as the Internet does. In nowadays phones, the main protocol that run the Internet and World Wide Web completely reshaped voice communication.

Before 2002 mainly data packet networks were used by voice telephone systems to deliver long distance calls. In 2002 Voice over Internet telephone system, or just VoIP, was invented. The result? Better phone features, high call quality and cheap rates.

According to statistics in 2013 about 1/3 of all deployed business lines were VoIP. The tendency of mass migration to VoIP will be gaining popularity in future. Experts predict that by 2016 2/3 of all deployed business phone line will be IP-based. 

Make Cheap International Calls Through Your Smartphone

With the advent of smart phones our life has become much easier. Before it keeping it touch with estranged family members was hard enough, but when the smart phones and tablets became inseparable part of our life staying connected with friends and families abroad is not a problem. You just need to download and install application and make cheap international calls through your smart phone or another mobile device.

Let`s check the most popular mobile apps used for smart phones nowadays.

• Tag Calls mobile application. Tag Calls is an international telecommunication company which has designed an application for smart phones and tablets for making cheap international calls. The app is running with iOS and Android mobile platforms. With Tag Calls mobile application you can stay connected with your estranged family members and friends. Affordable rates and high-end voice quality are the competitive advantages of the company.

• Skype. This program is the most widely used VoIP options for tablets and smart phones. It offers free calls in case if both users have Skype software installed on the mobile devices as well as affordable calls to landline and mobile phones. The downside of Skype application is the quality of the call as it`s really unpredictable.
• Google Voice. With this mobile app you can make calls and get such options as personalized voicemail messages, call forwarding and others. However the main pitfall of this option is that the Google Voice is widely restrained to the callers in the U.S., so this cannot be an optimal solution for everyone
• Fring. It is an application similar to Skype and the featured offered by it are identical to that of the Skype – messaging, video chat, VoIP calling, etc. It is only compatible with Android and iOS phones which together with buggy performance is considered to be downside.