We are a law firm and many of our attorneys schedule audio-only calls that are conducted from their cars, or while they're just out of the office in general.
Since the moderator requirement for Meetings was implemented, it's been incredibly difficult, if not impossible for our attorneys to conduct calls. Not all cars are equipped with CarPlay or Android Auto yet. Some attorneys just want to call into a number from their smartphone dialer and get the meeting started...like many other conferencing solutions do.
I get why the change was done and overall I agree with it... however, is there a reason why 8x8 can't assign Host codes along with Participant codes so 8x8 hosts can authenticate the call as moderator from a phone without the Work app and "Joining the Meeting"?
The difficulty introduced by this restriction has caused our attorneys to pretty much abandon using 8x8 for audio-only conferencing and they're using Zoom now (which is a really bad look for 8x8).
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Thomas Kline
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