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Voxbone (News - Alert), a wholesale provider of international numbers and call-origination services, revealed a one-stop support of short messaging services (SMS) for its direct inward dial (DID) numbers. Voxbone customers welcome easier SMS for their foreign phone numbers, as do Telinta customers. Recently Telinta, a provider of private label VoIP switch partition and hosted VoIP billing services, released an Application Programming Interface (API) that allows Telinta's customers to link Voxbone service to resell Voxbone DIDs.

The new function of SMS for DID numbers, offered by Voxbone, enables end users with phone numbers in foreign markets to receive text messages at local rates, as well as takes advantage of Internet protocol (IP) networks’ ability to converge voice and data.Voxbone’s support of SMS will begin in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., with Voxbone’s 50-country inventory to be added at a later date. 

Using the long-haul transport mechanism of Voxbone’s voice service, an SMS message texted to a DID will be routed to Voxbone, then deliver the message over its IP network.Voxbone has answered the market demand for a solution to phone numbers in foreign markets accepting text messages through third-party SMS providers. According to Rod Ullens, Voxbone CEO, phone numbers can now be provisioned instantly, along with all the services they might be dialed to deliver.  “In our IP network, voice and text become two features of the same number, configured once. 

Making it as easy as possible to add features supports our ongoing goal of helping customers get optimal use and/or revenue from their number assets,” commented Ullens in a statement.Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, Voxbone offers communications service providers and large businesses worldwide local phone numbers over its own private intercontinental VoIP network. The all-IP architecture of the Voxbone core network enables customers to rapidly deploy new communications services with local presence, while reducing costs.