Skype is one of the most popular applications for communication between Internet users. The program allows you to exchange text messages, as well as make audio and video calls. Skype appeared in 2003 and since then has gained great popularity among private and corporate clients. Versions of the application exist for desktop computers, mobile phones, set-top boxes, and even most modern TVs. Ease of use allowed him to become the most popular means of voice communication over the Internet.
First of all, they use Skype to communicate with each other through the World Wide Web, which can significantly reduce the cost of a conversation. In addition, the company offers to take advantage of many additional services, among which there are both paid and free. For users, money is available on calls to landlines and mobiles around the world, connecting phone numbers, sending SMS and other services. The development of the global network allows today to communicate immediately with several users from different parts of the world. What is a conference in Skype, how to create a connection to several subscribers at once? We will try to answer these and related questions in this article.
Conference in Skype. What is it?
Skype is very popular among business people, who often have to discuss work issues with several clients or partners at once. In addition, it is also convenient for an ordinary person to chat immediately with two or three friends or relatives. This is precisely the problem that the Skype conference is solving. How to create it, we’ll analyze it a little later, but now let's see how this function appeared in the application.
The history of the appearance of conferences on Skype
Initially, the program was conceived as an analogue of the popular instant messengers such as ICQ with the possibility of calls. Therefore, there was no conference on Skype. How to create it, the application developers thought a little later, when they realized that people want to discuss many issues in groups. The speed of the Internet for most users at that time was quite limited, and it was decided to shift the functions of supporting group communication to the company's servers. This is how skycasts came into being. However, they did not exist for long, and their format was different from the one offered by the conference on Skype. They didn’t figure out how to create an alternative to group communication between a large group of people in a company, and after passing under the control of Microsoft, apparently, they completely forgot. In the program itself, it was still possible to conduct group calls. A little later, users received the implementation of video conferencing.
Skype conference: how to create?
Before you start creating a group call or video conference, you must make sure of the technical capabilities. The implementation features of the protocols used in the program are such that the main load will occur on the equipment and the channel of the organizer. You will have to take care of a good Internet connection speed and sufficient
power of the computer or other device on which the application is installed, for example, for this reason, the Skype conference on the iPad cannot be organized in video mode.
Almost on any platform, in just a few taps, you can organize a group call. The easiest option is to simply call one of the contacts and then select the option “Invite to join the conference” or use the “Add to conference” icon for the rest. If you have to make enough calls to the same group of people, it will be more convenient to save it in your contact list.
Limitations
The conference on
Skype has a lot of restrictions
. How to create a dialogue with 100 contacts at once? Unfortunately, no one can answer this question, since the maximum number of participants in a group call is limited. You can add a maximum of 25 people to a voice conference. Communication with several subscribers via video is now included in the free Skype kit, but you can connect a maximum of 10 people. In addition, you cannot use this feature for more than 100 hours per month, 10 per day, or 4 at a time. A number of platforms do not support video conferencing at all or can work in a more limited mode, allowing you to communicate simultaneously with up to five people.