FreeConferenceCall.com and Gizmo Project Mix Things Up for the World Wide Audio Conferencing Marketplace.
Monday October 3, 1:36 pm ET
Market Stirring Mixed Audio Conferencing Brings Together World Wide PSTN and VoIP Callers, for Free

LONG BEACH, Calif., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Free Conferencing Corporation of Long Beach, California, provider of FreeConferenceCall.com, and Gizmo Project of San Diego, California, are not shy about stirring things up. The two innovators have combined their know-how and market moxie to unveil Mixed Conferencing, the first commercially available conference call service to bring together PSTN and VoIP users from around the world, in a single, crystal clear session that costs absolutely nothing.

FreeConferenceCall.com pioneered reservationless, free conferencing in 2001 and has maintained a hefty share of the market since inception. While Gizmo Project, brain child of VoIP provider SIPphone, is fast emerging as the front-runner in VoIP softphone solutions and putting pressure on VoIP contenders such as Skype. In a bold step towards realizing VoIP's full potential in the audio conference marketplace, the two groundbreakers released their Mixed Conferencing pilot project to the market in mid September. Since the pilot's introduction two weeks ago, over 800 users have signed up to try the new service and take advantage of the enormous cost-saving opportunity.

The Mixed Conferencing service works just like FreeConferenceCall.com's flagship reservationless audio conference service, where registered users dial an exclusive phone number and enter their assigned access code to participate in free conference calls. It's Gizmo Project's acclaimed softphone that adds the VoIP capability. Using this softphone, VoIP callers from anywhere around the world can participate in the FreeConferenceCall.com experience, for free.

David Erickson, president of Free Conferencing Corporation said, "The market needs PSTN and VoIP together -- it's the future of audio conferencing, without doubt. So I'm very excited that our initial Mixed Conferencing trials are producing clear and reliable calls between the PSTN and VoIP callers from all over the world."

Michael Robertson, Gizmo Project CEO said "By partnering with SIPphone, FreeConferenceCall.com is making conference calling free to a global audience. This won't please the telecom titans who profit from this service, but businesses should relish this new found savings and freedom to communicate without worrying about costs."

FreeConferenceCall.com will offer the Mixed Conferencing pilot service for a limited time only while conducting trials and fine-tuning their formal Mixed Conferencing commercial offering. Interested participants in the pilot service can sign up online with a simple Web form at http://gizmo.freeconferencecall.com. Upon submission participants will receive a FreeConferenceCall.com and Gizmo Project user I.D which can be used immediately to make free, reservationless mixed conference calls.

About Free Conferencing Corporation:

Founded in 2001, Free Conferencing Corporation is the trail-blazer in reservationless, free conference call services, based out of Long Beach, CA. The company specializes in quality reservationless audio teleconferencing, data conferencing and voicemail services with clients world-wide. Learn more at www.freeconferencecall.com.

About Gizmo Project:

The Gizmo Project (www.gizmoproject.com) began as an internal proof-of-concept by the engineering staff of SIPphone, Inc. (www.sipphone.com). The product was so well received by team members and partners that it was released to the public under its internal name "Gizmo Project." July 2005 is the first public release of the product, which has been widely praised by journalists, consumers and tech bloggers around the world for its reliability call quality, features, and intuitive user interface.
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Source: Free Conferencing Corporation