A company called Voxbone started the iNum initiative. According to the explanation of the iNum posted on their web site,
iNum stands for international Number. It is a new kind of global phone number for a new kind of world -- a world with a new geography that's about local presence and global relationships, not about distance or national borders.
iNum is making use of the +883 global country code newly created by the ITU (International Telecommunication Union). Unique selling points of a global country code are:
- area code for earth
- worldwide lifetime numbers
- with global number portability
Jim Courtney posted an article titled "Area Codes Are Dead — Thank VoIP" at GigaOm on 12 Nov 2008.
"Over the years we have seen the gradual separation of phone numbers from geographical location. To date, Skype’s SkypeIn service has been the best demonstration of this trend; even though I live and work just outside Toronto, Canada, I have a Palo Alto, Calif., SkypeIn number for historical family reasons, and I recently acquired a San Francisco number for Truphone. The same separation can apply to most VoIP-based voice services."
For those of you who are interested, please check it out his original post there by following the link below.
http://gigaom.com/2008/11/12/one-number-for-worldwide-local-access-becoming-a-reality/
Just imagine the potential of incorporating this "ONE Number" concept into either your femto cell or HSPA/3.5G WiFi router at home or your 3.5G HSPA mobile device, you have a global number portability and presence. In addition with a help of the new innovative service such as the [NGN LIVE MMSC] global open MMS (Picture Message) service, one new kind of global operator solely rely on the Internet has been created!
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