inum is free after you pay money in many cases. wow, what a not great deal! Some FEW providers honor the American language and provide an inum at no cost. Thanks: VoxAlot, FonSwitch, Callcentric
SIP Broker supported providers are far less hassle than inum in certain cases
http://inum.net/what-is-inum/inum-partners/
I’ll be sure to post when I find a provider on the inum list that provides an inum and inbound use without a fee.. until then it’s a bait n switch scam
- callcentric inum is free when you don’t live in the USA for e911 recovery fee *nod* *wink*. If you do live in the USA it will cost $5. callcentric, however, does really offer free SIP URI calls. Callcentric provides its own set of PSTN gateway numbers for fee-calling [not free] or for calling other SIP/iNum callcentric clients. There were too many characters needed in a dialstring for my phone but it is likely possible with the new $50/mo data penalty “smart” phones.
- callcentric free inum is only free “outside” the USA
- FonSwitch inum is free. NO purchase required. Instantly added to account after selection from a dropdown. FonSwitch offers free SIP URI calls
- FonSwitch free inum is free
- VoiceMeUp “free” inum offer is not free
- BlasterPhone “free” inum costs $5 and requires gateway to “directly” call iNum. “inum available to paying customers only”
- voxalot issues inum to all basic accounts: +883 5100 04 xxxxxx (where xxxxxx is your Voxalot number)
- voxalot free inum is free
I don’t expect free service arbitrarily; I do however expect integrity. Stand by your offer.
updated: corrections applied. Callcentric is free when you don’t “live” in the USA 
FonSwitch is always free inum no crazy e911 recovery fee AND they allow you to choose an iNum to your liking from a block of iNums.
Actually free iNum SIP providers
- callcentric
- free iNum
- no SIP SIMPLE presence
- must emulate presence with jabber [XMPP] (softphones)
- free voicemail
- server side filtering [limited]
- web UA registration status
- no SIP trace
- fonswitch
- free iNum
- SIP SIMPLE presence
- free voicemail
- no server side filtering
- web UA registration status
- no SIP trace
- voxalot basic
- free iNum (provider iNum prefix + usernumber)
- unknown SIP SIMPLE presence
- unknown voicemail freeness
- unknown server side filtering
- web UA registration status
- no SIP trace
I earnestly appreciate being corrected; I own- and apologize for my errors. One gains nothing by willful ignorance.
presence: RFC 3856/5264? et al
I’m always on the look out for ways for friends’ families money to keep in touch (internationally) inexpensively. For those who have free incoming mobile calls (UK/EU?)I would hope incoming SIP calls would be similarly free; iNum fits the bill nicely as the dialing party [ultimately] need not fuss with PSTN gateways or codes. Rather than suggesting they invest in an excellent headset I suggest they opt for an ATA for “normal” phones. ITSP and similar are kind enough to provide the free SIP calls, peering aside, it’s a “do a good turn daily” opportunity. I have been recommending the SPA2102 with latest Cisco firmware for home users behind cheap ISP CPE (with joyously crippleware NAT) other suggestions will be warmly received. Verizon FIOS westell gateways are the worst for ATA behind NAT with ‘SIP ALG’ that is nearly impossible to disable depending on firmware- and hardware versions. It seems walled garden is not far enough; FIOS gateways seem hell bent on raping SIP.
future checks
- SIP Presence subscriptions : SIP SUBSCRIBE/NOTIFY
- SIP Presence publishing : SIP PUBLISH
- SIP Presence document : SIP PIDF
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