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Remote conferencing use climbs despite travel rebound.

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Use of remote conferencing tools continues to rise this year, even as corporate travel budgets increase and face-to-face meetings return, said industry analysts. Although the debate over the level to which remote conferencing would replace face-to-face meetings heated up in the economic downturn as corporations cut their travel budgets, to-day most corporations use a blended approach to virtual meetings.

Corbin Ball, president of Bellingham, Wash.-based consulting firm Corbin Ball Associates, said use of teleconferencing and Webconferencing tools will continue to rise in the coming years, though videoconferencing is becoming outdated. Also, mobile technology is expected to influence development of remote conferencing tools.

The benefit of remote conferencing systems is that they are relatively cheap to implement and use. Virtual meetings can be 90 percent less expensive than face-to-face meetings. Global access, archiving capabilities and interactive...

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