When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Cry a Little, Laugh a Lot and Keep it UP

When people make negative reference to where you live, where you were born, your gender, lifestyle, culture, religion and other such social and personal characteristics in business, it just makes you and me realize what?

My first thought is ... for example, okay, so I am a white woman, the daughter of a protestant preacher and Vietnam War veteran, the wife of a USA government civil servant employee who works under the Department of Defense ... and I must say, it is true. On one hand, my husband tells me that I have to set my expectations for myself and my company higher than if I were a man. That's not a mystery to me.

My business partner who started Super Technologies, Inc. with me and many of the people in my company are from India, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates and Malaysia, but they are also some of the brightest, wisest, hard-working people I have ever met in my life.

I have traveled a lot in my life as a teacher, writer, entrepreneur, and business-owner with the goal to help my customers, number 1, and I do know that people do business differently in each area of the world.

But when I read something like this, after the countless 10-16 hour days that I and everyone in my company work and care for our customers, I admit for few moments that I want to cry.

But I can't. Tomorrow will be a new day.

Read the whole thread at http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-biz/2010-November/thread.html#start with search phrase: DIDX Query ... to find the following comments about www.didx.net.

> The debasement, cultural Third Worldisation, and used car salesmanship
> of the VoIP origination business presently being ascribed to DIDX in
> this thread is a real story, consisting of real thoughts by real
> people that is a useful data point from an empirical perspective.
> Everyone is, of course, free to make their own judgments and
> purchasing decisions.  However, there is clearly sufficient consensus
> around this angle on it that it's not just a figment of one
> disgruntled individual's imagination.

You can imagine after 11 years of working with a global team to help thousands of voip companies have success with easier, more flexible choice of DID and DDI ... to read such a summary...

Find me networking for business and lifetime friendships at http://www.linkedin.com/in/suzannebowen.

Is the Phone Number (DID) Dead?

I had this idea to share with the world of telecom-related providers that the phone number is not dead, even though we have social networking, cell phones,email, instant messengers, and tons of unified and converged communications solutions.

So, I emailed Hugh Goldstein my idea in the form of a Power Point presentation. And ... ITEXPO West has accepted.

Topic: Voice Interconnect and Peering Conference during ITEXPO West! Visit http://www.itexpo.com/ to sign up to attend, sponsor, exhibit.

Description: As VoIP services, presence, app markets and social networking begin to merge and dominate the consumer's Internet focus, are e.164 telephone numbers a thing of the past? Evidence suggests this is far from the case, in fact, LNP and DID wholesale providers are opening up new opportunities for e.164 numbers to enable new communications services and take a key functional role in the integration of new Web communications platforms and experiences. This panel will explore the trends and opportunities, and give use cases for social networking, Video telephony and nongeographic number business and use scenarios.

Session Title: Be sure to come to the Apps & Numbers: How 3.164 Numbers are Enabling New Communications Services session at http://www.itexpo.com/.

Speakers:
Rod Ullens Co-Founder & CEO -Voxbone
Bryan Hertz CEO, VoxOx -TelCentris
Suzanne Bowen Vice President, Super Technologies, DIDXchange, Techistan

Date: Oct. 5, 2010 Tuesday at 9:30 AM

Place: ITEXPO West at the Los Angeles Convention Center

Visit me Suzanne Bowen and some of our DIDX Team Members, DIDX Customers and Vendors, and open source developers at booth 143 during ITEXPO West Oct. 4-6, 2010. You can sign up now. It's in Los Angeles.

.. other blogs from our Super Technologies' team at http://blogs.didx.net/ and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/, our online magazine at http://www.techistan.com/, our iTunes channel, and DIDX podcasts. Find out how to bring new customers to your telephone company with local phone numbers from 70 countries. We are excited to be a part of helping 1000s around the world start a business, have success and connect with others via our Super Technologies' services such as DIDX, Techistan, Virtual Phoneline, CFMS or HVOIP white label business and more.

Virtual Phone Line Recording Feature Help Families and Elderly

Ask your telephony service provider if they offer Call Recording feature? Check also to see if they are using www.didx.net wholesale direct inward dialing marketplace? If they are, you're in luck to have access to phone numbers from 70 countries! If they are not and will not, check out www.virtualphoneline.com for call forwarding, web dialer, personal profile page, connection to Facebook and call recording.

And get your grandkids to call you and sing "Happy Birthday!" Record it for an extremely valuable memory.

Other call forwarding services include MyDivert, JetNumbers, Tollfreeforwarding, and Ring2Skype.

.. other blogs from our Super Technologies' team at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/, our online magazine at http://www.techistan.com, our iTunes channel, and DIDX podcasts. Find out how to bring new customers to your telephone company with local phone numbers from 70 countries. We are excited to be a part of helping 1000s around the world start a business, have success and connect with others via our Super Technologies' services such as DIDX, Techistan, Virtual Phoneline, CFMS or HVOIP white label business and more.

What about CNAM and DIDX wholesale phone numbers?

For CNAM inbound DIDX does not control CNAM inbound. DIDX can only send what we get from provider (vendor or seller) of the phone number. Whatever features come with each DID voip phone number is clearly listed in cells or fields you can see when you click on the phone number's details before buying including CNAM or No CNAM.


However, in most cases, after the sale of a NON-CNAM enabled DID voip phone number, we can ask the provider to make the Name of the registered callers only on the DIDX Buyer's customer's DID number by activating CNAM Inbound service on the number. DIDX will be charged from the provider (seller, vendor) an extra fee per month and DIDX will pass that fee onto the DIDX Buyer if ordered.
 
.. other blogs from our Super Technologies' team at http://blogs.didx.net/ and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/, our online magazine at http://www.techistan.com/, our iTunes channel, and DIDX podcasts. Find out how to bring new customers to your telephone company with local phone numbers from 70 countries. We are excited to be a part of helping 1000s around the world start a business, have success and connect with others via our Super Technologies' services such as DIDX, Techistan, Virtual Phoneline, CFMS or HVOIP white label business and more.

NI Shares the Love from DIDX Team for its Wholesale Telephony Member Community

Nauman is one of the coolest, smartest, most customer-loved member on our DIDX team. I like the way he shares great deals on DID phone numbers for wholesale buyers in this video. 


Did anyone see him take the lead on our company's rendition of "All We Need is Love?"



... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/, our online magazine at http://www.techistan.com, our iTunes channel, and DIDX podcasts. Find out how to get your telephone company to offer phone numbers from around the world. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time. We are excited to be a part of helping 1000s around the world start a business, have success and connect with others via our Super Technologies' services such as DIDX, Techistan, Virtual Phoneline, CFMS or HVOIP white label business and more.

To Use or Not to Use Google Voice Outside the USA

According to a VoIP list moderator about Google Voice outside the USA ...

You don't get full usefulness from GV unless you are in the USA.

You will need to register from a USA IP address.

You will need a US phone number to send calls to, in order to validate the account.

GV does not easily connect to SIP. (Addition by Suzanne Bowen: but that is why Google bought Gizmo5.)

Outside the USA you can use GV for sending and receiving SMS.

Outside the USA you can use GV as a place to get voicemail.

Outside the USA you can make free calls to the USA only if you have a USA DID or a Gizmo5 account. There may be other hacks, but I don't recommend depending on any of these. Gizmo5 is less than 100% reliable.

(Show me a voIP application or cell phone service that is. None, none at all. The fact that the person says Gizmo5 is less than 100% reliable... congratulations, Gizmo5!!!!)

.... Are you an IP communications related entrepreneur, telco of any type, wired or wireless, contact center, social or business community portal provider, conference producer and such? If not, find out how to get your telephone company to offer phone numbers from around the world.


... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net/ and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. Find out how to get your telephone company to offer phone numbers from around the world. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Entrepreneurs, Ex-Pats, Families, and Friends Need More Mexico Phone Numbers on DIDX

Our DIDX wholesale marketplacee does have an excellent Mexico DID phone number provider with vendor ID 705156. The company offers Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey at great rates $2/month wholesale, can't beat it. They sell fast and 100s of new are added each month. But ...


Carriers, wireless operators, CLECs, and other types of ISPs and telephony service providers who can fulfill the following, please contact sales@didx.net. There are thousands of entrepreneurs, ex-patriates, tourists, traveling businesspeople, families, students, and friends who need a local presence back home in Mexico in the form of a "Mexico Phone Number," (also known as SIP DID, DID, or direct inward dialing). They are needed at a flat rate with unlimited incoming minutes. They will be sold through www.didx.net where our company takes care of the signup, sales, billing and customer service. Your company only has to deal with one entity DIDX.

 Thanks for your help in passing on the word:

Guaymas

Orbegon

Acapulco

Ciudad Juárez

Mérida

Reynosa

Acolman

Morelia

Cancún

Hermosillo

San Martin

Huejotzingo

Pachuca

Leon

Queretaro

Torreón

Veracruz

... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. Find out how to get your telephone company to offer phone numbers from around the world. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Too Late to Click Undo, Mailing List Etiquette

Mailing list etiquette says when you wish to start a new topic on a mailing discussion list, feel free to click "Reply," check the "To" to make sure it is correct, get rid of the previous digest of unrelated messages, change the subject line as needed, and proceed. I send a big thank you to "Nice Guy on  Asterisk-Biz List" for reminding me. Slow down ...

On Tue, Mar. 30, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Suzanne Bowen wrote:
Nice Guy on Asterisk-Biz List, you are right. I changed the subject line but forgot to delete the digest below before clicking "send." I appreciate the reminder of good list etiquette. Wish I could do "undo."

Thank you,
Suzanne Bowen
VP Marketing, Super Technologies, Inc., DIDX.net

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Nice Guy on Asterisk-Biz List wrote:
Please don't reply to the digest if you want to post to the list.. It makes a larger than necessary posting in everyone's email box.
Thanks,
-Nice Guy on Asterisk-Biz List

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Suzanne Bowen wrote:
Quick note to Asterisk-Biz list ...
http://www.didx.net/ wholesale phone number marketplace where vendor rating is 0-8 with 8 as highest and 4 and above as good:

Vendor 700328 offers Auckland, New Zealand DID phone numbers .99 USD (99 cents) per month, zero NRC. Vendor rating is 5. 5,000 minutes and 1 channel is included.

Vendor 705156 offers MX City, Monterrey, and Guadalajara DID phone numbers $3 USD per month, $2 NRC. Vendor rating is 8. 10,000 minutes and 2 channels are included.

We are able to keep these good rates especially when the volume of sales is right, so we hope you'll take advantage.

Complete list of DID areas available are at http://www.didx.net/did showing the lowest rates available. Please keep in mind that most of the DIDs have more than one vendor and therefore, more than one NRC, MRC, features available such as caller id, sms, fax t38, and so on; number of minutes included, channels included, and chance to buy or not buy additional channels.

Also this is a blog post that is a combination of tips shared by successful DIDX buyers with me: http://blogs.didx.net/2009/11/model-of-didx-wholesale-sip-did.html. Wishing the best for your and your customers this year.

Thank you,
Suzanne Bowen
VP Marketing, Super Technologies, Inc., DIDX.net
Blogs: http://blogs.didx.net, http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/,
Media channels: http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/did-ddi/, http://www.didx.net/podcast, http://www.techistan.net
Meet us at partnered events: http://didx.net/events/
What's this thing called DIDX? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0PnkCMadO8

+ about four notebook worth of pages of a digest of emails for the day from the Asterisk-Biz List.

I will learn to slow down.




... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net/ and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. Find out how to get your telephone company to offer phone numbers from around the world. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

What do you think of FCC's National Broadband Plan?

Sending my thanks to TMCnet for interviewing me on FCC's new broadband plan at http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/did-ddi/articles/78779-didxchange-broadband-plan-packs-potential-communications-market.htm.

How would you answer the same questions?

TMCnet Editor Stefania Viscusi: “What do you think of the FCC’s national broadband plan?”

Suzanne Bowen: Remember, I'm an ex-English teacher turned small business owner, so I have a different view than most who might have spent their whole career in telecommunications, engineering, and/or business in general.

Isn't this a 376 page preliminary report, like a first draft of a framework, so what we read today will change tomorrow? And what's wrong with that as long as progress is made? For the people, you and me and them. I see a potential for new kinds of jobs to replace the old and obsolete, more opportunities for more education for those who need it, and even better ... more collaborative education, improved public safety networks, narrowed gap between the 'haves' and the 'have nots,' and because of this, the empowerment of entrepreneurs with the tools needed to start businesses that put the unemployed back to work.

TMCnet Editor Stefania Viscusi: “How do you expect this plan to affect your markets?”

Suzanne Bowen: Our market is in every corner of Earth, wherever any one has a softswitch and an empowering and practical entrepreneurial idea for business. The plan would be a step in the right direction for that type of individual or organization who wants to leverage direct inward dialing and call forward management with other services and products. In turn, it pushes the future-thinking (previously traditional) telecoms who are major suppliers of DID on DIDX, to expand their Internet and wireless services, products and devices and to change the paradigm of expected main streams of revenue.

TMCnet Editor Stefania Viscusi:: “Any other thoughts on what this new plan means for the future of communications””

Suzanne Bowen: It's a bit lofty and dreamy for me to say, but here we go: Innovation might get new opportunities to come out of hiding in the minds of the most unobvious locations and types of people.



... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. Find out how to get your telephone company to offer phone numbers from around the world. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Bring on the Red Bull at CTIA Wireless APPs World

CTIA Wireless International on Mar. 23-25, 2010 is set in Las Vegas, Nevada, and their APPs World area includes new for 2010:

Apps World is home base for thousands of developers at International CTIA WIRELESS 2010! This is THE place to network, be educated, get hands-on experience, gain cross platform exposure and stay caffeinated. Apps World is an open resource for developers, carriers, manufacturers, app stores and buyers!
Featuring...
■Learning Centers ... Blackberry Developers' Platform...

■Developers Clubhouse

■Hands on Interactive Displays

■Speed Date with Dev Platforms ... cool.

■Lots and lots of Exhibits – over 30,000 sq. ft.!!

Be sure to sign up for CTIA Wireless International. Riviera Hotel is offering a great deal, and it is less than 1/2 mile from the conference center on the Strip. Visit DIDXchange in the exhibit area. Ask for Jenny, Suzanne, Max or Noreen.


... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net/ and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. Find out how to get your telephone company to offer phone numbers from around the world. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

End-to-End Domestic LD Calls from USA to Africa Request

Searching on behalf of an industry friend: end-to-end domestic LD calls from USA to all over the African continent, need termination. We've got them covered with South Africa and Kenya DID, but termination still needed, good price, good quality. Don't let me lose a friend with a raw deal.

... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net/ and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. Find out how to get your telephone company to offer phone numbers from around the world. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Co-operative Republic of Guyana DID phone numbers and telco trivia

http://www.didx.net has several thousand telco and voip company wholesale members with a goal to buy and sell DID and DDI phone numbers. The most recent request is for Co-operative Republic of Guyana DID phone numbers. Requesting wireless and wired telcos and voip companies with this to contact care@didx.net with Co-operative Republic of Guyana in the subject line. This is wholesale level only. See http://www.didx.net/interop to understand the terms and interop testing steps to get an instant interconnect with thousands of other service providers for origination (DID/DDI).

BTW, for the trivia buffs...
Telephone Systems in Guyana
Telephones: 110,120 main telephone lines (2005)
Telephones mobile cellular: 281,400 (2005)
General Assessment: fair system for long-distance service
Domestic: microwave radio relay network for trunk lines; fixed-line teledensity is about 15 per 100 persons; many areas still lack fixed-line telephone services; mobile-cellular teledensity reached 37 per 100 persons in 2005
International: country code - 592; tropospheric scatter to Trinidad; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)


... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. Find out how to get your telephone company to offer phone numbers from around the world. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Nigerian IT & Telecom Networks on Linkedin DID Discussion

Before 2010, I have plans to interview directors of "communications comissions" of different African nations which will be posted at http://www.didx.net/podcast. I met a few of them at ITW 2008 and ITEXPO East 2009 whom I have stayed in touch with. Right now, there is a discussion on LinkedIn about Zain's choice of Aircom to produce 2G and 3G in Nigeria. The conversation has turned to Nigerian DID needed on DIDX.net. Would you join that discussion group on Linkedin and help out? It's at http://www.linkedin.com/newsArticle?viewDiscussion=&articleID=83824627&gid=1777935.

... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Bill McCarthy Shares Ideas on International Business

Listen to the DIDX podcast of Bill who is CEO of Vocati Communications.

On the Vocati Communications blog, he mentions a few more words on the value of DIDX for IP communications' companies and how that wholesale platform enables the valuable end users to have a local presence where they need to in the world:

The person doing the interview was very generous and very kind. We are a huge fan of DIDX and what they do. Anyone visiting the page can purchase DIDs from any of the countries mentioned (and many more) from us or directly from DiDx (but what fun would that be?)

We are going to do a Spanish Version of this interview with Andres Acero, the other founder and Chief Operations Officer Worldwide and will share his thoughts with the listeners of this podcast. This is scheduled for December so stay tune!

... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net/ and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

The Weekend Comes Alive at GoMobile

And I think it will do the same for you! Start by visiting the GoMobile website and listen to the music at GoMobile.

What are some of the fun things you get to do while you take the opportunity to learn something mobile new, do some new mobile business and bring out the mobile you? Be among 60,000+ participants, too.

Mobile Booth Hunt
GoMobile Moments Photo Competition
Cyberjaya GoMobile Photo Competition
Truly Asia Reality Mobile Video Contest
Raffles-Truly Asia Reality Mobile Video Contest
QR Code Contest
GoMobile Clique
GoMobile Fashion Show
Fancy a Free LG Phone?

GoMobile Team is quite sure that there are going to be lots more things happening at GoMobile 2009. Keep checking www.gomobile.my and www.clique.gomobile.my.

Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre
23 – 24 October (Fri & Sat): 11 am - 9 pm
25 October (Sun) : 11 am - 8 pm

DIDX and Virtual Phone Line are media partner for GoMobile. Are you an IP communications service provider? Join DIDX and advertise for your clients to get a Malaysia phone number while in Kuala Lumpur to ring on their cell phone or data side instant messenger. You are not a provider, but a consumer? Check with MyDivert, Jetnumbers, Tollfreeforwarding, Gizmo Project, FreeLocalNumber, or Virtual Phone Line for a Malaysia phone number to stay local while in K.L.!

... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Green Saves Money Virtual PBX

Interested? Listen to the DIDX podcast with Michael Schelin of ShellTel on Virtual PBX, fax to email, virtualization, shopping cart systems and the advantages of using DIDX to buy and sell wholesale DID/DDI.

Blog also posted at TMC Green Technology blog. Save money and help save the Earth.

... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Two Female Entrepreneurs on Direct Inward Dialing

Maria Gomez is the Customer Relations Manager and Co-Founder of GGGG Corporation. Suzanne Bowen, that's me, is the Vice President and Co-Founder of Super Technologies, Inc. in 1999 who offer the DIDXchange, the wholesale direct inward dialing marketplace. We discuss in English and Spanish what is so great about direct inward dialing, selling and buying DID on DIDX, and in particular the power of having a local presence in Colombia via a phone number.

Visit http://www.didx.net/podcast/?p=episode&name=2009-06-12_mariag_columbiadidx.mp3 at our DIDX podcast and listen.

Maria, from one end of Florida to the other... see you soon.

(I apologize to Maria and all readers for misspelling "Colombia." "Colombia" is correct. "Columbia" is wrong.)
... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Cerrar tu compania de Voip, Tiene algo de integridad

FCC dice que compañías de Voip no pueden cerrar si ningún aviso razonable. Muchos están molestos sobre esto, creyendo que esto es una instancia mas donde el departamento de gobierno esta interfiriendo con el Internet publico y con el empresariado en general, pero una compañía de calidad, relacionada o no con Voip debería de hacer lo correcto cuando saben que se tienen que ir fuera del negocio; dar un aviso y algo mejor, ayudar a sus clientes al por mayor y de menudeo a través de la transición como en por ejemplo, LNP.

Ejemplo son Digilinea que repentinamente no estaban al servicio por teléfono, email o algún otro método de comunicación. Ellos parecían ser una compañía bien fuerte. Ellos tenían un excelente equipo de servicio al cliente. Algo debió salir mal, pero cuando ellos desaparecieron sin aviso, esto lastimo a una poca docena de miles de clientes al por mayor y millones de usuarios de terminación. Hay otras compañías que han hecho casi lo mismo, y cuando nosotros, la industria de comunicaciones IP trata de colocar sus números a otros proveedores cualificados, ellos no fueron de gran ayuda y en algunos casos, nos amenazaron a todos nosotros. WT hmm..O? Perdóname, por favor.

Una compañía que hizo lo correcto fue I3 Networks. Su CEO informo a cada uno con bastante avancé de aviso y hizo todo lo posible en ayudar a todos los clientes para que puedan tener una transición cómoda en lo posible cuando se tenga que cerrar la venta. Eso es integridad.

Los proveedores de servicios de telefonía están invitados a inscribirse en http://www.didx.net para comprar y vender los números de teléfono internacionales.

Quiero dar las gracias a Alan Pesatty para la traducción al español de http://suzanne.supertec.com/2009/05/closing-your-voip-company-have-some.html. Se puede llegar a Alan Pesatty para los servicios de traducción en Facebook.

El original del blog en Inglés se encuentra en http://suzanne.supertec.com/2009/05/closing-your-voip-company-have-some.html.

…Curiosear algunos de los otros blogs de nuestro equipo en http://blogs.didx.net y http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. Usted esta bienvenido a comentar, contribuir y colaborar en cualquier momento.

Suzanne of DIDX meets with Asian telcos in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur

(Talking about myself in third person, not a good idea. ;-) Singapore is 13 hours ahead in time from that in Pensacola, Florida (CST). My roundtrip to Singapore and back is June 14 - 22, 2009. We will have a booth at CommunicAsia and we will serve as a media partner, taking podcast and video interviews and documenting the great business development there via photo galleries, press releases and blog posts. I've already set up several appointments with Asian telephony companies who plan to sell DID on www.didx.net.

I'll be in Kuala Lumpur on June 18 to be a part of one of the 1st Asia Women Business Power Conference panel discussions. Can't wait, what a great opportunity. Thank you, Andrew Wong and MIRC, for asking me.

I want to thank the readers of this blog and the one at TMC and the DIDX blog who have referred Asian telephony companies to meet with me.

Don't stop sending to me! Not sure when I'll be in Singapore or Malaysia again.

... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

New phone numbers from Jordan and Iceland on DIDX

Wholesale IP communications can now satisfy clients who need a local presence in Jordan, Iceland as well as Beijing, China; South Korea and Japan. Check the complete list of countries' DID available at http://www.didx.net/did and more indepth information on these particular new areas at http://blogs.didx.net/2009/06/new-phone-numbers-on-wholesale-didx-of.html.

Let me backtrack because some readers are asking:
1. What is a DID? It's an acronym meaning direct inward dialing. Today we use it synonymously with the phrase "phone number." Because of voice over Internet, SIP and open source telephony such as Asterisk and FreeSWITCH and more, telephone service providers are potentially able to provide anyone a phone number from any country in the world ... to have a local presence there.

2. Why would anyone want a phone number from Jordan or Iceland if they are not living and working in one of those countries? If you want to start receiving phone calls from people in a certain city or country, you want to make it easy for them to call you. They are more likely to call you if the phone number they dial is local to them. You buy a phone number that is local to them and set it to ring to your favorite instant messenger, a SIP or IAX2 address, landline or cell phone. Ask your telephone service provider if they are using DIDX.net? If they are, you have available to you ... phone numbers from more 60 countries. If they are not, send them to http://www.didx.net/signup.

... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.