The next venture of Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia is SabeseBolo – an Audio Conferencing service that lets you make conference calls through regular landline or mobile phones within India.
The service is completely free and all you need is an email address to get a unique conference number and pin. All the participants will then dial that number to set up a conference call.
You can have at most 10 people per teleconference session. There’s probably no direct way to record conference calls though you can refer to previous hacks.
Sounds simple and there’re no fees for using the conference service but the meeting participants may have to pay national calling charges (if some of them are outside Mumbai) because they are not dialing a toll-free number.
SabseBolo.com – *SabseBolo means “Talk to Everyone”
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Reader Comments
Its most certainly interesting to know, that somebody is providing conferencing facility for 10 participants absolutely free of cost, I had heard about Sabsebolo a month ago. I did try to sign up with them, what they are offering is very much authentic! I did get a dial in number and passcode absolutely free of cost. I was shocked as many other companies are making big money in the conferencing business, while Sabsebolo is offering free of cost!
Well only when I used the service I realised what the actual scene is, Well the company makes its money by making the conferees listen to Advertisement aired on their conferencing bridge. So anybody who wants to use their facility will have to listen to the advertisements.
Well if somebody wants free conferencing facility then they will have to forget about their companies Reputation.
I stopped using their service, as I use conferencing for discusiing business with clients, prospective clients, vendors, employees, etc. I would not want to be embarrased by making my clients and other parties listen to irrelevant adverstisements. Its better to pay and use rather than get humiliated.
Written by Rashmi Chakravathy on 04.02.08
Hai My name is Ashok, I m a Chartered Accountant, running my own consultancy, I use conferencing for discussing with my clients and also my employees who work onsite with my clients. I always look for ways to cut down on cost, now when I came to know about Sabsebolo I was excited , as I thought I would be able cut down on my conferencing budget, as I do not require anything more than 7-8 Users at a time.
I happily registered with Sabsebolo, I got the details for the conference.
I scheduled my conference with my clients, there were 5 participants. All seemed to be well, but only when I tried to connect to their bridge, I realised I shoudnt have gone for something free and mess with my reputation, there we 3 particpants from my clients company, who are very busy people, getting their appointments takes ages, all I could do is get them to listen to the Advertisements on Sabsebolo, and then they say, the PIN you have enetered is Wrong and you never get to conference. And the best part is there is nobody whom you can get to speak if there is a problem.
So I realised there is nothing called as a free lunch. I had pay my cost, was not able to have a conference, my cients were unhappy with me for poor organisation.
Written by Ashok Vardhan on 04.03.08