Focus on What's Important:  Eliminating Background Noise and Distractions

• Call from a quiet location.
• Turn off the ringer of a multi-line phone or any other phone in the room.

Use Optimal Equipment

• The best equipment choice for your conference is a phone unit directly hardwired into telephone lines.
• If possible, avoid using cell phones, cordless phones, speakerphones and Internet telephone services for your conference, as they often pick up static and background noise.
• A bad connection can sometimes be the cause of background static. If this happens, hang up and dial in again until you get a clear line.
• Test the working condition of your equipment before a significant conference.

Don't Forget the Extras

• Do not put your phone on hold if you have on-hold music or advertisements. Your on-hold music will play for conference Participants making conversation impossible in your absence.
• Turn off your call waiting or its beeping will disrupt the conference and may be confused with entry or exit chimes.  For example, dialing *70 before the conference dial-in number disables call waiting for some phone services. If you need assistance with this feature, contact your local phone service provider.

Take Advantage of Conference Controls to eliminate background noise

• Self-mute can be used by any conference Participant and can be turned on and off by toggling "*6" on the telephone keypad.
• Decide which conference mode works best for your conference and toggle "*7" on your telephone keypad to make your selection.  You must have entered your Organizer Access Code when joining a conference to access this control during a conference.

We hope you will find our tips on eliminating conference call background noise and distractions will help keep the focus on what's most important, your message.