Audio Conferencing

Meet Live, Anytime, Anywhere

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With hectic schedules and tighter travel budgets, companies want a simple, reliable and cost-effective way to share ideas, brainstorm and solve issues. TELUS Audio Conferencing provides it. If you’ve a got a phone, you’ve got the makings of a collaborative work environment. With multiple options to choose from, you can set up instant meetings without a reservation or host a professionally assisted conference event without ever leaving your office.

  • Avoid the cost and complexity of scheduling and attending face to face meetings with people in geographically dispersed locations
  • Local access numbers from major cities across Canada eliminate long distance costs - Global and North America toll-free access numbers are available for conference participants
  • Access to online charges and billing through TELUS Active Reporting.
  • TELUS Conference Representatives are available 24 x 7 for quick issue resolution or guidance

Key Features and Benefits

You could be planning your quarterly investor relations call. Or a customer issue has just come up and you need to assemble the account team. Whatever the meeting need, TELUS has the conferencing solution.

  • Conference on Demand for calls with no reservation, no monthly fees and no set-up fees.
  • Professional Conferencing provides a personal touch with dial out and greeting of participants expertly handled by a TELUS Conferencing Representative.
  • Special Event Conferencing offers conference management for important presentations or announcements with 50+ participants.
  • Integrated Audio and Web Conference on Demand allows you to conduct visual, interactive meetings that combine Web and voice easily and cost effectively.
  • Crisis Management Conferencing provides instant access to pre-defined response teams .  One toll free number and one passcode initiates a “blast dial” to a predefined list of participants for the effective management of major unexpected events
  • TELUS Active Reporting is a secure web based application that allows your organization to generate billing and usage reports for conferencing across your user base.  It makes it easy to reallocate costs and manage internal conference use.  You can pull the data you want and create reports that meet your business needs.

Save even more by combining Conferencing with other TELUS services in the Business One Bundle. Find out how.

Contract terms provide greater savings and preferential rates are available in combination with TELUS Business Long Distance.

Conference on Demand

  • No monthly fees, no signup fee
  • No reservations required
  • 24x7 availability
  • Conference Representatives are available 24 X7 to assist with your meeting
  • No restrictions on length of call
  • Local dial-in numbers in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. Toll Free Access available throughout North America
  • A permanent dial-in number
  • Touch Tone commands and online tools to control the conference
  • Passcode protection (Chairperson & Participant Codes)
  • Digital Recording and Playback on Demand allows you to make sessions available to a broader audience; participants can pause, fast forward or rewind
  • Web console to manage your conference with a standard web browser
  • Sub – Conferencing allows select participants to engage in private discussion outside the main call

Professional Conferencing

  • TELUS Conferencing Representatives will dial out to domestic or international participants for a personal touch and to ensure participants are on time
  • Representatives will meet, screen and greet participants and provide roll call if requested.
  • Sub – Conferencing allows select participants to engage in private discussion outside the main call

Special Event Conferencing

  • Conference management for important presentation or announcements for 50+ participants
  • Pre-conference consultation with a TELUS Conferencing Representative to discuss your requirements and make recommendations to ensure a successful conference
  • Dedicated support during the meeting including a Conferencing Representative to facilitate the meeting and a liaison person for additional support
  • Question and answer format allows you to present an uninterrupted message and then field and respond to questions in an orderly manner
  • Voting/Polling allows participants to provide anonymous input to polls, focus groups, research surveys or any query that requires tabulated results. Participants vote using their Touch Tone keypad; TELUS Teleconferencing polling provides immediate results.
  • Conference monitoring and operator assistance
  • Digital Recording and Playback on Demand allows you to make sessions available to a broader audience; participants can pause, fast forward or rewind
  • Meeting statistics available including list of attendees with name and company name, names of participants that posed questions, etc.

Crisis Management

  • Bring your team together quickly and easily.  “Blast dial”to a predefined list of key personnel by calling a toll-free number and one pass
  • easy to use:  To initiate a TELUS Crisis Management conference:
    • Dial the toll-free access number
    • Enter your PIN code
    • The TELUS system simultaneously blast-dials to your entire response team
    • Participants enter a touch-tone sequence to be added to the meeting – ensuring voice mail and other unwanted responses are not added to your conference
    • Within seconds your entire crisis management team has been assembled
  • Flexibility in contact lists. You can have multiple contact lists for various response teams. Key personnel and emergency phone numbers can be associated with different types of emergencies. Multiple phone numbers for each participant are possible to ensure contact is made.
  • Secure access to the conference. Each participant is required to enter a touch-tone sequence to be added to the meeting.
  • Support when you need it. TELUS Conference Representatives are available 24/7 to provide additional assistance if you require it. Our team can dial out to additional individuals, or can act on your specific instructions to ensure that key personnel are tracked down. Simply press *0 from within your conference.
  • Digital recording
  • Playback on demand
  • Lock-out feature for additional security – prevents anyone, including the operator, from entering the call

TELUS Conference on Demand with Local Access from six Canadian cities:

Standard Rates

Usage Level

1 Year Contract

3 Year Contract

5 Year Contract

 

Local Dial*

Minutes/ Yr

Local Dial*

Local Dial*

Local Dial*

$0.24

5,000 – 25,000

$0.18

$0.15

$0.15

25K – 50K

$0.12

$0.10

$0.10

50K – 100K

$0.10

$0.10

$0.08

100K – 150K

$0.10

$0.08

$0.08

150K – 200K

$0.08

$0.08

$0.07

200K +

Contact Your TELUS Account Representative

TELUS Conference on Demand with North American Toll Free Access:

Standard Rates

Usage Level

1 Year Contract

3 Year Contract

5 Year Contract

 

With**

Toll Free

Minutes/ Yr

With**

Toll Free

With**

Toll Free

With**

Toll Free

$0.35

5,000 – 25,000

$0.24

$0.21

$0.21

25K – 50K

$0.18

$0.18

$0.15

50K – 100K

$0.18

$0.15

$0.12

100K – 150K

$0.15

$0.12

  $0.115

150K – 200K

$0.12

$0.115

$0.10

200K +

Contact Your TELUS Account Representative

**Participants dial-in utilizing North American Toll Free Access.

Conferences can include a mixture of participants dialing in locally from six major Canadian cities or via Toll Free access.

The rates listed above are examples only.  Other discount plans available upon request.  For more information contact your TELUS Account Representative or call 1-877-944-MEET (6338).

With TELUS Conference on Demand you are only ever billed for exactly what you use.  There are no set up charges or recurring monthly fees.  Additionally, with TELUS you are able to reduce costs by dialing locally into conferences from six major Canadian cities.   Participants outside our local point-of-presence areas are afforded the convenience of North America toll free access.  Global Toll free access is also available from over 30 countries worldwide with rates dependent on country of origin.  

Pricing for other TELUS Teleconference call types and services are also available upon request:

  • Professional Conferencing
  • Special Event Conferencing
  • Crisis Management Conferencing
  • Playback on Demand
  • Integrated Web Conferencing

Call now to learn more:  1-877-944-MEET (6338)

Our Team of Conference Representatives are standing by 24 x 7 x 365 to answer your questions.

With TELUS the future is friendly

In Conference Assistance or Trouble Reporting

  • Press *0 (star zero) while on your conference to report the issue to a TELUS conference representative.  In most cases the agent can solve the problem while the call is in progress.
  • Have the following information ready:
    • Conference number
    • Participant/moderator PIN code
    • Description of the issue
  • If your conference has ended, please call 1-877-944-MEET (6338) 
  • teleconferencing@telus.com

Guides, Tips and FAQ's - English

Guides, Tips and FAQ's - French

World Wide Accessibility

Product Flash Presentations

Contract Rates

  • For contract rates and additional product information and assistance please contact:  CSASRsales@telus.com.

Audio Conference Network Upgrade November 2009

For additional information and support, please contact the TELUS Conference Team 24 x7 x 365:

In Conference Assistance or Trouble Reporting

  • Press *0 (star zero) while on your conference to report the issue to a TELUS conference representative.  In most cases the agent can solve the problem while the call is in progress.
  • Have the following information ready: conference number, participant/moderator PIN code, description of the issue
  • If your conference has ended, please call 1-877-944-MEET (6338)
  • teleconferencing@telus.com

Audio Conference Provisioning, Support and General Enquiries

Contract Rates

  • For contract rates and additional product information and assistance please contact:  CSASRsales@telus.com.

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TELUS Audio Conferencing

English Brochures

Conference on Demand
(155 KB, PDF)
Audio Conferencing User Guide
(379 KB, PDF)
Audio Console User Guide
(43 KB, PDF)
Conferencing Solutions Overview
(156 KB, PDF)
Professional Conferencing
(163 KB, PDF)
Special Event Conferencing
(164 KB, PDF)
Crisis Management Conferencing
(131 KB, PDF)
Active Reporting
(158 KB, PDF)
Web Conference on Demand
(169 KB, PDF)

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French Brochures

Conference Professionnelle  
(186 KB, PDF)
Conference Speciale
(188 KB, PDF)
Conference Sur demande de TELUS
(161 KB, PDF)  
Guide de l'utilisateur - Audio Conference
(383 KB, PDF)

Guide de l'utilisateur de la Audio Console
(73 KB, PDF)
Solutions de Conference  
(59 KB, PDF)  
Services de Conference pour la Gestion de Crises  
(115 KB, PDF)  
TELUS Rapport en Ligne  
(56 KB, PDF)  
LaCyberconference sur demand  
(300 KB, PDF)  

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