Voxbone - Change Your Phone Number and Lose Your Friends and Contacts

Last year, Voxbone launched an interesting service called iNum that gives users worldwide phone numbers that do not depend on an area or country. It gives you a number with the +883 global code that can ring all your phones wherever you are, for life. Since then, many service providers and carriers from many countries have joined the iNum service, a list of which you can find there.

Voxbone released the results of a survey today showing that one of the best ways of losing friends and alienating people is to change phone number. The survey claims that 7 out of 10 people that changed number lost contact with people. We can understand that Voxbone presents this survey to lay emphasis and convince on the point that everyone should have a number to be used anywhere, through any media, using any communicating device and for life. Google Voice has already set the 'one number to ring them all' rhythm, but it is now available only for people in the US. iNum reaches the world.

The stats from the survey look interesting. Over a quarter of those surveyed have had more than 20 different phone numbers during their lives. 82% would like to have a number they can carry anywhere they go around the globe. 70% people who changed numbers have lost contact with people as a result. The message is clear: get your provider to be a partner at iNum if this isn't the case yet. This way, you can obtain an iNum number and make international calls at local rates. To do this, have your provider visit that page to get involved. iNum will provide free phone numbers that will be used in an interconnection between PSTN and VoIP networks.