April 21, 2010 Incumbent telcos open up for iNum
We’re happy to annonce that something many thought would never happen, did happen 
Incumbent telcos start opening their network to iNum, making it possible to natively dial iNum numbers from their fixed networks.
The first three to make the move are Belgacom, BT and Verizon.
Others are currently in the works. How fast this will go depends on how much users ask for this capability to their local telco.
We are asking for everyone’s help. Wherever you are in the world, please try and make test calls to iNum numbers and contact your local telco if it does not work. The more users ask their local telco to support this, the faster it will happen. The following test number can be used: +883 510 000 000 091 (it terminates on an echo test)
Thanks for the support and for all your help !
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Stefanix Says:
July 2nd, 2010 at 4:09 am
Would be interesting to know the charges for such calls. +883 sounds expensive and probably will be.
As those numbers are meant to terminate to VoIP subscribers, why aren’t they registered as ENUMs? This would allow originating networks to forward those calls cheap (close to zero).
I guess Voxbone wants to cash in on termination fees to their +883 gateways and is not interested to allow direct routing…
hgoldstein Says:
July 14th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
@ Stefanix,
Hi – for retail service providers we are offering free termination to iNum numbers. The direct routing issue is a problem for the planned number portability, but there are ENUM projects in development.