macman4hire
join:2009-03-30
2 edits | Has anyone tried iNum?
I just signed up for an iNum "One number for the world". The assigned phone number is ridiculously long and I had to enter twice because of miss dialing it. I set my iNum number up with my Callcentric account and must admit the call quality was good. I dialed New York access number and calling directly from another Callcentric account. I would to hear hear from others about their opinions about the iNum service and how they have used it.
Below is the link to sign up at Callcentric:
»www.callcentric.com/did_lookup.p···d=Lookup |
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Lugnuts
@propsychology.cz
| I just tried it by getting a number from callcentric. Then I dialed an access number from a phone not registered to callcentric, entered the inum number and it rang my callcentric phone.
Then I called out via voipuser, which is one of the providers set up with voxalot, and that also rang my callcentric phone.
So I guess there is a central inum server, and vosps which support inum are connected to that server; and if someone calls an inum number using one of those vosps, it connects to the server, and the server routes the call to whatever vosp is associated with that inum number.
I don't know how useful will be. Do the people behind inum think that the landline phone companies will eventually allow their subscribers to make 853 calls as if they are local calls? Wouldn't that lose business for them?
I have relatives on the West coast who could call me via an access number, but why would they? It is cheap enough for them to dial my number directly, and they wouldn't find it worth their while to do access number + inum number. |
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Lugnuts
@all.de
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According to dogface05, sipbroker is sipbroken because of incompatiblities among the way sip is set up on the various voip servers (I think that is what he said).
Will this be a problem with inum?
Would charging for inum help or hinder its use? voip.ms charges a setup fee of 25 cents and an incoming fee of 1/10 cent per minute for its virtual DIDs.
If vosps did that for the inum numbers they give out, would it be an incentive for them to give out the numbers?
Any way to get a sipbroker-type alias with your inum number?
For example, if I get an inum number with callcentric, maybe I could get an alias of 1234, and the inum number somebody would have to dial would be: 853 + 462 + 1234, ie 8534621234, where the '462' identifies the number as associated with callcentric. |
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deskjockey
join:2005-04-17
Charlotte, NC | reply to macman4hire
Had a person in Stockholm Sweden call with their pots line to the local dial in inum # that then ringed my US Gizmo number and quality was good. |
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dicodread
join:2008-11-16
barbados | reply to macman4hire
Skype charges 2c to call any iNum.
I have tried with the ones from Callcentric and the quality was good. |
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kieranmullen
Premium
join:2005-12-12
Portland, OR
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In what way is it broken more specifically?
said by Lugnuts :
According to dogface05, sipbroker is sipbroken because of incompatiblities among the way sip is set up on the various voip servers (I think that is what he said).
Will this be a problem with inum?
Would charging for inum help or hinder its use? voip.ms charges a setup fee of 25 cents and an incoming fee of 1/10 cent per minute for its virtual DIDs.
If vosps did that for the inum numbers they give out, would it be an incentive for them to give out the numbers?
Any way to get a sipbroker-type alias with your inum number?
For example, if I get an inum number with callcentric, maybe I could get an alias of 1234, and the inum number somebody would have to dial would be: 853 + 462 + 1234, ie 8534621234, where the '462' identifies the number as associated with callcentric.
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KieranMullen »360oregon.com
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sciat
@rr.com
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said by Lugnuts :
According to dogface05, sipbroker is sipbroken because of incompatiblities among the way sip is set up on the various voip servers (I think that is what he said).
Actually I think the only "problem" with SIP Broker is that they let anyone setup an address to a VoIP provider. In other words just because some VoIP provider is listed there doesn't mean that it is sanctioned or tested for interoperability.
So this is both good and bad. Good because anyone can setup a SIP Broker code to some VoIP provider; but bad because probably in the vast majority (I'm guessing 90+%) of the cases the VoIP provider didn't do it themselves, test how it works, or pays attention (or cares) whether it continues to work. There are some exceptions to this; for example Callcentric seems to actively support SIP Broker, but with most VoIP providers they don't mention being "connected" to SIP Broker so they don't know or care whether it works or not.
Perhaps SIP Broker could add to the list of codes not just whether they think the peering works which they have a green checkbox / red X for, but also whether it is officially supported by the provider... |
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