August 26, 2010 Digit short cut
iNum – “One number for the world” – has a beautifully simple ring to it, but some iNum users have shared the well intentioned observation that its actually 15 numbers!
Well, here is a tip for sparing your digits when using the network of iNum Access Numbers: Once you reach the voice prompt, leave out the the +883 510 and just dial the 0-xxxx-xxxx.
This will result in the full number 8835100-xxxx-xxxx being called.
——UPDATE: VoIP expert and iNum user Jeff Bourgeois recently posted additional speed-dialing suggestions for calling iNums for those using Cisco/Linksys IP Phones & ATA and Callcentric services, including a 2-digit method. Check out his blog for the details. Thanks Jeff!
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Jeff - CQVoIP Says:
August 27th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
Thanks for this tip.
I did have some problems when I first tried dialing the inum numbers – after leaving out the +883 5100. When I did that, that left 8 digits remaining to dial. When I only dialed the last 8 digits, it didn’t accept the numbers.
However, then I realized your example also says only to dial 0xxxxxxxx (which is 9 digits). Now, it works fine when dialing only the last 9 digits of the iNum.
Just for accuracy sake, this means we leave out the first 6 digits (+883 510) instead of the indicated first 7 digits (+883 5100).
Anyways, I now got it to work. And, thanks again for the tip and your continuing initiatives with implementing iNum calling.
Jeff – cqvoip.net
hgoldstein Says:
August 30th, 2010 at 2:46 am
Thanks Jeff, I edited the original post per your suggestion to make it more clear.