Setting Up Conference Calls With A Bridge Line

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As a work at home professional, every so often, depending on the circumstances, teleconferences is a must. You will have to talk to a group, a team or a committee to provide updates on a project you are working on. In the olden days, you will need to go to the office to use special equipment that can handle multiple callers at once. But even with those equipment that have a multiple-caller feature, sometimes the number of people who can call in is very limited.

The creation of a bridge technology changed all that. A bridge number or a bridge line, is a specific number that participants call and are asked for a participants passcode so they can join a call. The organizer of the meeting and owner of the bridge number or bridge line can then open up the call by entering the leader ID when prompted. Depending on your plan with the bridge line provider, the number of participants can be from a couple of people to hundreds, even thousands, especially if the bridge number is usually used for Global calls.


With the bridge line, there is no longer a need to be present in the office just to set-up or participate in a conference call. All you need is a landline to call the local equivalent number of the bridgeline from a touch tone phone, put in your participant passcode and you're set to go.

If you're in a remote location and there's no equivalent local number for you to call, as long as you have an internet connection, you will still be able to call using your magic jack or via Gmail calling. This is because the generic bridge line is a US number which is a free location to call to when using Magic Jack or Gmail.