Australian 1800 number
Most people join a conference call by dialling an Australian 1800 number. This means the organiser is paying the call costs of the participants.
The table below compares the cost of using our 1800 number with other service providers. It does not include services that are secretive about their pricing or internet based services (because of their reliability).
In the table below we have abbreviated our very long name to TTC.
Why are real telephone lines so much better for teleconferences than the internet?
Real telephone lines allow us to provide great sound quality for every teleconference.
Calls over the internet are not consistently good and it only needs one bad line to ruin a meeting.
Savings with TTC
Us (TTC)
Eureka
34%
per call
HotAir
63%
per call
Express
76%
per call
Telstra
83%
per call
Dial into
Melbourne
Us (TTC)
5¢
per min
Eureka
8¢
per min
HotAir
15¢
per min
Express
24¢
per min
Telstra
35¢
per min
Dial into
USA
- UK
- NZ Landline
- NZ Auckland/mobiles
- Singapore
Us (TTC)
15¢
per min
- 15¢/min
- 12¢/min
- 11¢/min
- 17¢/min
Eureka
28¢
per min
- 28¢/min
- 14¢/min
- 18¢/min
- 28¢/min
HotAir
25¢
per min
- 35¢/min
- 25¢/min
- 23¢/min
- 35¢/min
Express
95¢
per min
- 95¢/min
- 60¢/min
- 60¢/min
- 95¢/min
Telstra
230¢
per min
- $2.30/min
- $2.30/min
- $2.30/min
- $2.30/min
| TTC | Eureka | HotAir | Express | Telstra | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savings | ✔ | 34% | 63% | 76% | 83% | |
| per call | per call | per call | per call | |||
| The above savings per teleconference, are based on an average meeting of 3 Australian landlines and 3 mobiles dialling into the Australian 1800 number for 60 minutes. | ||||||
| Rates per line per minute (+GST) | ||||||
| From a landline | 8¢ | 9¢ | 14¢ | 25¢ | 39¢ | 55¢ |
| From a mobile phone | 10.5¢ | 12¢ | 14¢ | 25¢ | 39¢ | 55¢ |
All rates are per line per minute.
| TTC | Eureka | HotAir | Express | Telstra | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melbourne | 5¢ | 8¢ | 15¢ | 24¢ | 35¢ |
| Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra, Adelaide, Hobart & Darwin | 6¢ | 8¢ | 25¢ | 24¢ | 35¢ |
| TTC | Ozlink | HotAir | Express | Telstra | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA | 15¢ | 19¢ | 25¢ | 95¢ | $2.30 | |
| UK | 15¢ | 19¢ | 35¢ | 95¢ | $2.30 | |
| NZ Landline | 12¢ | 19¢ | 25¢ | 60¢ | $2.30 | |
| NZ Auckland Mobile | 11¢ | 12¢ | xx | 23¢ | 60¢ | $2.30 |
| Singapore | 17¢ | 19¢ | 28¢ | 35¢ | 95¢ | $2.30 |
Fixed price plans are only available from services that put calls over the internet.
They can do this because they hope their customers will understand that it may not always work, but is really cheap.
VoIP can be great for normal phone calls but when you have multiple lines that all have to be good it is not very reliable.
At The Teleconferencing Company, we provide a service we know will be good every time and this is only possible using regular telephone lines.
It only needs one bad line to ruin the meeting.
For a reliable service our rates are outrageously low, but it is possible to find cheaper services but only from companies that put their calls over the internet.
We use proper telephone lines because this is the only way to know that every meeting will sound great.