i have been participating in different teleconferences in ICANN specially ccNSO were most of the participants required call-outs to mobile phones and we did not have such problems facing ALAC teleconferences. Mobile phones is not the main problem, and i can assume most of use are coming from "unusual" locations as well where toll free numbers dose not exist . Regards, Mohamed Alan Greenberg wrote:
I think "no fixed reliable telephone available" meets my criteria of "absolutely necessary". ;-)
My intent was to recognize that a sizable number of our problems have been caused by mobile phones....
At 12/06/2007 02:47 PM, alice wrote:
people from "unusual" locations which require call-outs (and seemingly no mechanism to know that they have dropped and need to be re-called).
I think that we should outlaw the use of Skype and equivalent, and strongly discourage mobile phones unless absolutely necessary.
If mobile phones are discouraged then most of us will never be able to participate in any teleconference. Please let us not forget that some of us come from countries where fixed reliable telephony has been a failure and as a result we rely on our mobile phone lines/numbers.
alice
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