August 31, 2009 iNum is burning this week !

iNum numbers will be used this whole week to enable wireless texting and calling to Burning Man participants.

This has been done in partnership with the OpenBTS project, and one of the purposes of this partnership is to showcase how iNum can be used to quickly and cost-effectively connect regions that need it, for example when a natural disaster or a war isolate a region from the rest of the world.

We first met David Burgess at eComm where he introduced us to the OpenBTS project. Thanks David for your tremendous help and efforts in getting this launched !

Burning Man is a huge event gathering 50,000 people and taking place in the middle of the Nevada desert. For more info, see www.burningman.com

OpenBTS is an open-source project forming the basis of a new type of cellular network. It basically allows the deployment of a VoIP and Asterisk based wireless network. For more info, see openbts.sourceforge.net

UPDATE: see daily updates and pictures on the OpenBTS blog: openbts.blogspot.com

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February 2, 2009 eComm in 5 weeks !

We unveiled iNum at the first eComm conference, almost one year ago. iNum was still in preparation at that time, and a lot has happened since then.

The second edition of eComm is taking place in San Francisco, March 03-05. eComm is the most cutting-edge event for everyone involved in communications innovation. Lee Dryburgh has once again prepared an amazing schedule.

Some exciting iNum news will be announced during this conference, so come and join us !

For more info on the eComm conference, visit www.ecommconf.com

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November 10, 2008 iNum beta launches

After two years of preparation, we are extremely happy to finally launch iNum.

Thanks to everyone at Voxbone for pulling this through, thanks to Sheldon Renan and Lee Dryburgh for their support, and finally thanks to all founding partners for believing in iNum so early on.

There’s a lot more to come in the next several weeks, but this is a great start.
Stay tuned to our blog !

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