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How Do I Join by Telephone?

You can join a Zoom meeting via teleconferencing/audio conferencing (using a traditional telephone). This is useful in occasions where:

• you do not have a microphone or speaker on your PC/Mac
• you do not have a smartphone (iOS or Android) while on the road, or
• you could not connect to a network for movie and VoIP/computer audio.

Option A: Join by computer (for movie) and telephone (for audio)

Option B: Join by telephone only

1. Dial a local number. Please see https://zoom.us/zoomconference for a list of dial-in numbers by countries
2. You will be prompted to inject the meeting ID – the nine (9) or ten (Ten) digit ID provided to you by the host
3. You will be prompted to inject your unique participant ID – Press # to skip

Note: If you determined to Join via telephone after Joining via computer, please select Audio Options and Leave Computer Audio. Then inject #Participant ID#. Otherwise you may hear audio feedback or echo in the meeting.

Trio. See above ‘Join by Teleconference’ section.

Phone guidelines available for meeting participants

The following guidelines can be entered via DTMF tones using your phone’s dialpad while in a Zoom Meeting:

1. If you have scheduled the meeting from a basic account the meeting will timeout after forty-minutes with a thirty minute warning notification.
2. If you would like the meeting to last for unlimited duration you will have to schedule from a Pro account.
3. You will not have host controls such as recording, mute all/individual functionality.
4. The number of phones that can connect to a Zoom Meeting or Webinar is determined by account type and add-on assigned to the user account
   • Pro User: one hundred Dial In Users
   • Pro + Large Meeting 200: one hundred twenty five Dial In Users + seventy five Listen-Only Users
   • Pro + Large Meeting 300: one hundred twenty five Dial In Users + one hundred seventy five Listen-Only Users
   • Pro + Large Meeting 500: one hundred twenty five Dial In Users + three hundred seventy five Listen-Only Users
   • Pro + Webinar 100: one hundred Dial In Users
   • Pro + Webinar 500: five hundred Dial In Users
   • Pro + Webinar 1000: one thousand Dial In Users
   • Pro + Webinar three thousand and above: one thousand Dial In Users

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