The big telecom providers are finding its better to put conferencing in the hands of the experts. Sprint is in current negotiations with an officially unnamed buyer to sell its conferencing business says Elliot Gold of TeleSpan.

The biggest concern has to be the impact on Sprint's customers, particularly those that are buying conferencing as part of the Sprint brand in a bundled environment. For all Sprint conferencing customers - if this service were to be snapped off the Sprint brand - a sale would seem to be a great time to do a little price shopping? After all, a change of vendors begs for a new look at price.

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