Company Wins Gold for Best New Telecommunications Service of the Year and Bronze for Company of the Year
LONG BEACH, Calif. – August 22, 2012 – FreeConferenceCall.com International was named the winner of two Stevie® Awards in the 9th Annual International Business Awards, the world’s premier business awards program. The company won the gold for Best Telecommunications Service of the Year and it also won the Bronze for Telecommunications Company of the Year, finishing behind Qualcomm Incorporated.
David Erickson, Founder of FreeConferenceCall.com, said “We are extremely proud to receive these awards and also want to congratulate the other winners from around the world. We focus on providing our loyal customers with the highest quality and dependable conference calling services globally and it is a great honor to be recognized along with some of the most talented innovators in the world.”
FreeConferenceCall.com, which has revolutionized the way teleconferences are organized, provides consumers with domestic and international conferencing services for the cost of a regular domestic phone call and the ability to share files and other content online during calls with interconnected free screen sharing. Businesses and consumers are saving millions of dollars on conferencing fees every year by using free conferencing services. Since January, 2011, FreeConferenceCall.com, which has over 20 million callers around the world every month, has developed and expanded the company’s free conference calling services into over 26 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Features of the service include:
Stevie Award winners were selected by more than 300 executives worldwide who participated in the judging process this year. Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word for “crowned,” the awards will be presented to winners at a gala awards banquet at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Seoul, South Korea on 15 October. All individuals and organizations worldwide are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small. The 2012 IBAs received more than 3,200 nominations from organizations located in more than 50 nations and territories.
Details about The International Business Awards and the lists of Stevie Award winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/IBA.
About FreeConferenceCall.com
FreeConferenceCall.com, the largest privately held conferencing provider in the United States, provides conference calling services to over 20 million callers a month. The company's reliable, high quality, reservation-less audio conferencing service is used to connect over 200 million calls a year around the world. FreeConferenceCall.com's pioneering all-digital network is built on proprietary media servers. A major milestone for FreeConferenceCall.com took place during the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, when both President Obama and Senator McCain’s campaigns chose FreeConferenceCall.com to communicate with their supporters nationwide. StartMeeting (www.StartMeeting.com) is the new service from the creators of FreeConferenceCall.com. StartMeeting combines real-time desktop sharing with integrated audio conferencing, offering state of the art features such as meeting recording and a customizable Meeting Wall. This innovative and robust audio and web conferencing service is priced significantly less than similar services. FreeConferenceCall.com was founded in 2001 and is based in Long Beach, California.
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The International Business Awards, The American Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.