Voxbone 883 Numbers to Bring Portability and Cheap Calling

Rod Ullens, CEO of Belgium-based Voxbone today made an announcement about iNum, a new initiative to make Worldwide portable telephone numbers available. Apparently the culmination of two years of implementation effort, Voxbone will run a new virtual country-code, +883, allowing users to have a number that is non-geographic, in turn forwarding calls to their own geographic DDI number. Ullens:

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We'd like this number range to be reachable for free from all the VoIP communities and a very cheap call from the PSTN. We want to first focus on the VoIP communities, and then later on PSTN.

Ullens admits that some incumbent carriers may be reluctant to route calls to the new range, but he hopes that eventually it will be available as a cheap call from anywhere on the planet.

Ullens claims that the 883 numbers will not be held back by national requirements on VoIP providers to provide E911 emergency service. Since the +883 number range are for inbound calling only, it will not be possible to make emergency calls or any other kind of calls from those numbers, so legislation should not affect them.

Rod Ullens will be going into more detail about iNum at the ecomm conference on Thursday at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley.

Reply from satphoneguy on Mar 11, 2008 - 10:28 PM

xep!
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Reply from jebscn on Mar 13, 2008 - 11:46 AM

@satphoneguy is 100% correct. Without a strategy to get all the Telcos in the world to set up routing and tariffing for this number range, calls to this number range are going to go nowhere. The problem here is that they have very little incentive to do this.



A similar scheme using country code +878 failed for exactly this reason a couple of years ago.

Reply from rodullens on Mar 15, 2008 - 07:06 PM

the +878 initiative was 6 years ago... the communications landscape is completely different now.
Our strategy is also very different, and we will explain that when the service launches (it is still pre-beta right now)

Rod

Reply from tjardick on Mar 18, 2008 - 08:19 AM

I'm very curious to see where this may lead.

I think your right Rod in saying that the telco industry is definitely different then 6 years ago.

I've been saying this for a long time and all thought it may take a (long) while the future of minutes is on the way out.


Voice is becoming another service on top of data transport, and it's this last mile data that we will keep on paying for to be able to support our current and future services on top of this, maybe combined by a per connection fee in the beginning.

I'm looking forward to this trial and we will be sure to participate in the (free) routing of the +883 code.

Tj

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