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Sonetel to Give All Customers iNum® Numbers From Voxbone

iNum Enhances Sonetel’s Freemium PBX Solution for Small and Medium Businesses Worldwide

BRUSSELS – May 22, 2012 – Voxbone announced today that Sonetel, a Swedish VoIP provider with users in more than 200 countries, has begun giving all of its subscribers free iNum^® numbers from Voxbone. The agreement to provide iNums expands Sonetel’s relationship with Voxbone, which has provided the certified reseller more than 17,000 geographical phone numbers since 2010.

iNums are global phone numbers that Voxbone launched in 2008 to support IP communications. Using the international number range of +883 5100 assigned to Voxbone, iNums enable a customer to establish a local presence in new locations with a single, portable number. By providing every customer an iNum, Sonetel will extend the subscriber’s range of free calling to include communications with all other iNum users, anywhere in the world.

Sonetel offers a free hosted PBX solution that is particularly popular with small and medium businesses (SMBs) in price-sensitive regions, such as Africa and Asia. The company then upsells those customers on call termination and Voxbone-provided premium origination services. Together, Sonetel and Voxbone help business owners cost-effectively add local phone numbers, as well as launch virtual offices in any country where they see a market opportunity.

Sonetel has begun providing iNums to its more than 40,000 existing users and will assign them to the 200 to 300 customers that sign up for service each day. In the process, Sonetel is helping enhance the value of iNums by expanding the number of businesses and other organizations worldwide that can be reached for free via iNums.

iNums are distributed and routed by a growing list of service providers. Where not routed by a local provider, iNums also can be reached by the iNum initiative’s local access numbers in 45 countries.

“Sonetel’s decision to provide free iNums to all of its customers is the latest example of increasing adoption of these flexible, global numbers that support IP communications features,” said Voxbone CEO Rod Ullens. “The addition of iNums to Sonetel’s innovative freemium PBX solution will enable a business to create a professional, global presence quickly and cost-effectively.”

“The iNum concept is ideally suited to the needs of our SMB customers and a natural complement to our existing offerings,” said Sonetel CEO Henrik Thomé. “Providing free iNums will add value to our solution, making it easier for our customers to drive global growth.”

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About Voxbone
Voxbone is the market leader in providing worldwide geographical, toll-free and iNum^® telephone numbers, enabling Internet communications services providers, global carriers, national operators and enterprises to extend the reach of their voice services internationally, rapidly and with minimal costs. The company delivers high-quality inbound communications (often referred to as direct inward dialing, or DID) from more than 50 countries and more than 4,000 cities around the world. For more information, visit www.voxbone.com or connect with Voxbone on LinkedIn or Twitter. 

About Sonetel

Sonetel is the only provider of a free, global PBX service (business phone system) for small and medium size businesses.  The service allows entrepreneurs worldwide to instantly get a professional, free communications solution, and open “virtual offices” around the world at a very low cost. More than 40,000 have signed up for the freemium service from over 200 countries.

Sonetel is a Swedish company with service centers in Asia, USA and Europe

For more information, visit www.sonetel.com or facebook.com/sonetel or twitter.com/sonetel.

Spout Joins Voxbone’s iNum Network for Global VoIP Calling

Customers Can Obtain Global Numbers and Call Other iNum Numbers for Free

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada – May 7, 2012 – Spout Communications today announced it has joined the growing community of communications service providers that are offering their customers geographically independent iNum^® numbers for free and providing free calling to all other iNum numbers. 

Membership in the iNum community boosts Spout’s ability to provide global telecommunications solutions. The addition of Spout to the iNum network represents another provider’s acceptance and use of numbers that are not tied to a geographic location, as opposed to traditional numbers with country-specific codes.

Voxbone’s iNums support IP communications features, combining the best attributes of telephone numbers and Internet communications. They enable users, including members of VoIP communities, conferencing providers, small and medium-size businesses, and charitable organizations, to create a local presence in new locations with a single, portable number reachable from throughout the world. iNums use the international number range of +883 5100, which the International Telecommunication Union assigned to Voxbone.

Spout becomes the latest service provider to offer its customers the opportunity to save considerably on the cost of international voice calls and text messages while the service provider gains the opportunity to support high-definition voice and video telephony.

“iNum is the future of telephony,” said Nathan Wosnack, Chief Sales Evangelist of Spout Communications. “As a small and nimble yet experienced telecommunications company, we are excited to join the growing list of networks that support iNum”.

Functioning as a technological bridge between cloud communications networks and traditional PSTN and mobile networks, Voxbone is the market leader in providing worldwide geographical, toll-free and geographically independent telephone numbers. 

Hugh Goldstein, Vice President of Business Development for the Voxbone iNum initiative, said:  “We’re very pleased to have Spout in our iNum community. We look forward to working closely with Spout to enable free IP communications services via iNum – the area code for the earth.”

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About Spout
Spout Communications is a low-cost retail as well as wholesale provider of local, international, toll free, VPS hosting, cloud and consulting services for residential, small and medium sized business customers.

Subscribers have, over the last few years, come to expect full functionality in the form of interconnection, security, policy enforcement, privacy, and regulatory compliance. Powered by the best human capital in the business, Spout brings you this all plus: low-cost, low-latency, and top-tier connectivity on a simple yet feature-rich portal. For more information, visit www.thespout.ca.

About Voxbone
Voxbone is the market leader in providing worldwide geographical, toll-free and geographically independent telephone numbers, enabling Internet communications services providers, global carriers, national operators and enterprises to extend the reach of their voice services internationally, rapidly and with minimal costs. The company delivers high-quality inbound communications (often referred to as direct inward dialing, or DID) from more than 50 countries and more than 4,000 cities around the world.

Voxbone launched the iNum community in 2008 to provide a new kind of global phone number for a new kind of world not bound by geography. Using the international number range of +883 5100, iNums enable users, including members of VoIP communities, conferencing providers, small and medium-size businesses, and charitable organizations, to establish a local presence in new locations with a single, portable number reachable from throughout the world. iNums currently support high-definition voice, SMS and presence.

For more information, visit www.voxbone.com or www.inum.net, or connect with Voxbone on LinkedIn or Twitter.

United Nations Selects Voxbone to Implement Unique Country Code for Agencies Offering Humanitarian Aid after Natural Disasters

Company Chosen for Its Experience in Providing iNum^® Worldwide Telephone Numbers

 

BRUSSELS – May 25, 2011 – Voxbone today announced it has been selected to provide a means for United Nations agencies responding with humanitarian aid in times of natural disasters to stay in contact and communicate with one another quickly and easily via a unique United Nations country code – 888.

Under agreement with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Voxbone has been authorized to implement the country code 888 that the ITU has assigned to OCHA for UN agencies engaged in rendering assistance to nations or regions affected by natural disasters, such as the Southeast Asian tsunami or the earthquake in Haiti.

Having its own special 888 country code will allow the UN to assign specific numbers to agencies providing humanitarian relief to victims of such disasters.

The agreement states, in part: “… OCHA appoints Voxbone as its agent to assist OCHA with the implementation and routing of the +888 numbering range / country code, and to take any actions needed to ensure that calling parties on multiple fixed and mobile access networks can call the +888 numbering range / country code under conditions specified by OCHA.”

Voxbone CEO Rod Ullens said OCHA chose Voxbone, the market-leading wholesale provider of geographical, toll-free and iNum^® worldwide telephone numbers, because of its success since 2008 in enabling toll-free calling for consumers, businesses, governmental agencies and other entities through the iNum (+883) system of call-handling among international carriers, operators and service providers. 

“We are very pleased that a prestigious United Nations agency has selected Voxbone to implement the 888 country code and help expand the safety net of humanitarian aid to areas of the world hit hard by natural disaster,” said Ullens.  “In such trying times, it’s imperative that the UN agencies able to help the most can communicate with one other quickly and get all the necessary assistance moving to affected areas rapidly.”

Chief of the Technical Coordination and Partnerships Unit (TCPU), UN OCHA, Chérif Ghaly, continues: “We highly appreciate Voxbone’s kind offer of assistance and support in the implementation of the UN country code to facilitate emergency telecommunications during humanitarian relief operations and the timely delivery of lifesaving activities.”

About Voxbone

Headquartered in Brussels, Voxbone is the market leader in worldwide geographical, toll-free and iNum^® telephone numbers. Voxbone enables Internet communications services providers, wholesale carriers and mobile and fixed national operators to extend their network reach internationally, rapidly and with limited costs. Voxbone delivers high-quality inbound communications from more than 50 countries and more than 4,000 cities, using its private global carrier-grade VoIP network, which originated 2.1 billion minutes of traffic in 2010. The company excels in quality through its redundant core network and IP backbone, the increasing number of countries in which it has its own number ranges and network infrastructure, and its fully automated back office. Voxbone was founded in 2005 and is privately held. For more information, visit www.voxbone.com.