iNUM Support

[s2scotty]

To Customer Service / Carrier network Department,

I am a customer in good standing with your company. Please forward this letter to your network's
carrier access team to open up access to two country codes that are current not reachable to your calling network.

One is the +883 country code provided by the iNum initiative by Voxbone. The other is +888, a new country code exclusively used by the United Nations to help UN relief workers stay in communications with those in need during a UN disaster relief effort. Both the +883 and +888 number ranges were created by the ITU (International Telecommunication Union). These are global telephone numbers designed for IP Communications (they support Voice and SMS, as well as IP features like HD Voice, Video and Presence), however they also do require access from landline and mobile networks as well.

There are two ways to connect and “open” access to the +888 and +883 numbers:

1. Connect directly via SIP interconnect with the iNum.net service platform. Please refer to http://www.inum.net/get-involved/ for more information.
2. Send the traffic using a wholesale voice carrier supporting +888 and +883. For the list of wholesale voice carriers routing +883 and +888 traffic, please refer to http://www.inum.net/what-is-inum/voice-reach/

You can learn more about the iNum initiative at www.inum.net. To learn more about +888, please visit the following UN page: http://wgetcollaboration.humanitarianinfo.org/888 . For more questions, send an email to inum@voxbone.com

Thank you,

[Luddite]

Are you sure about 888; that is a toll free exchange in North America?

[kav2001c]

@Luddite iNUM is an international standerd so there are some areas where +888 is not assigned (& +1-888 is not same thing as +888 as well)

Most iNUM are +883 from what I have seen

@s2scotty I do support the idea (I actually own an iNUM number as well) but good luck with it. My experiance is none of the Canadian carriers even support it and less even understand what it is. The funniest was Wind who not only had no idea what it was, but who's answer to me was "we don't know how much it costs to dial, just try it and see then how much we bill you"