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How Does FreeConferenceCall.com Make Money?

By on January 23, 2013 in Featured

Free Conference Call com how do They Make Money

FeeFighters.com took a look at how companies like FreeConferenceCall.com make money. Surprisingly, it’s not through up-selling to their premium, for-pay, product. It’s via an “outdated” telecommunication regulation from the telecommunications act of 1996, that’s still on the books, which requires small rural telephone companies to charge larger telephone companies a “termination fee” to access their lines.

It used to be that you’d pay long distance rates depending on where you called, and you’d pay more to call those locations. In the past decade or so, with the onset of cellphones and flat-rate long distance plans, the phone companies just assumed that only a small percentage of people would actually call those numbers. The fees that AT&T and the larger companies pay the small companies are 10-20x more than the normal fees – termination rates range from .3 cents to 20 cents. The rural companies get a great deal – the more calls that they take, the more money they make.

More traffic = More $$$! So, they had a brilliant idea!

If they can get businesses with a lot of incoming calls, like conference calling companies, they could make a lot of money. So they started cutting deals with conference call companies, phonesex lines, etc. If the termination fee at a particular location was 8 cents, they could pay a conference bridge company 4 cents per minute and still make 4 cents on the call. Conference calling is relatively cheap to setup, so these companies are able to offer free service to customers like us and still make 4 cents per minute. It’s all about using more minutes.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.

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  • http://bit.ly/xsy6iB WAHM-Shelley.Blogspot

    Wow!!!…What a great business model…I was expecting to read in this article that they were making money by advertising to callers before they are connected to the conference call…

    Thanks for writing a short but sweet, informative article…

    WAHM Shelley…

  • http://planmobile.net Benjamin Stewart

    Hello everyone that is reading this, I have been with this company since last year in august 2011 and just recently started marketing for it on April 18th 2012 as I type this it’s may 24th 2012, I have been almost averaging a sale a week since I started all from free advertising. This company is by far one of the most common sense companies I have came across in the last years that I have seen and the comp plan is great as well. So pretty much if you have been searching for a way to make money from home, if you can’t do this company you might as well keep doing what it is that you do. it takes action to get what you want and I’m here to help everyone out that I can. sick of seeing people get scammed and promised the world and getting nothing in return. If your motivated and willing to follow my lead I can show you things that you never thought possible. my goal this year is to help 100′s of people make their first commissions from home.
    go here check it out http://planmobile.net
    if you like it great if not that’s fine because people that want a change in their life would jump on board to change it and others will just keep looking and never doing anything to change it and whine about it. maybe your one of those people that get into a program and do nothing so you get nothing in return and if your that kind of person then your not for me or for anyone for that matter.
    Thanks for your time
    Benjamin Stewart

  • Edgar

    FreeConferenceCall.com, FreeConferenceCallHD.com and FreeConferencing.com are all really great companies/websites if you like this model

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