Mystery Solved ~ Secret of Three Way Calling Revealed

“Why don’t you initiate the three-way call at 6:00?” to which I replied with a silent gulp, “Sure!”. Conference calls have always been a mystery to me. Clients who were in different places have initiated the calls TO me and I’ve always thought, “How Awesome!” and wished I’d had advanced techie skills like that. Well, it is awesome and now I’ve taken the mystery out of three way calling for myself.

6:30 AM today had me googling how to make a 3 way phone call. For one thing, I started by creating an account with Verizon for my 3 year old phone service. Who knew? Now I can tap into the rest of the mysteries of my phone…and the service has been there for me all along!

Turns out that getting charged air time for the call isn’t as scary as it sounds. It just means you use up minutes but there’s no extra fee unless you are over your minutes. It was so simple to make the call, I’m almost embarrassed, but not quite.

Leslie and my mother agreed to help out for the “dry” run. Don’t laugh but I printed out the directions. Simple, simple, simple. While on the phone with one party, you simply dial the 10 digit phone number for your second party and hit “send”. The first party is put on hold until the second party answers. Shazaam, three parties talking all together.

Turns out that the parties I’d gotten the correspondence course for telephone higher education wouldn’t be available when I could be in an area for good cell phone service so we’ll see each other in person this weekend. Still, it’s good to always improve your skill sets.

So, the moral of the story is don’t be afraid to try something new. It’s a fabulous age we live in when you can type just about any question into your computer and get an answer, often it is even the right answer.

One day soon I’m going to surprise two AR members and introduce them by phone. I’d hate to have taken the mystery out of doing the 3 way phone calls and not put it into practice!