If you ever wondered what Ohio and Auckland, New Zealand have in common, other than the fact that neither one is in Morocco, here's your answer.

From Atlanta comes the news that Star2Billing, the commercial arm of A2Billing, and an open source Telecom Switch and Billing platform, has announced its fifth year anniversary in 2010.

And to celebrate, DIDX is offering all Star2Billing customers the option of special SIP DID of 1000 Ohio, USA DIDs and Auckland, New Zealand DID phone numbers.

So if you were looking for a way to make that crucial Cleveland-Auckland connection, well, this is your rather bizarrely-unexpected lucky day.

'According to many users of Star2Billing and officials at Super Technologies (News - Alert) (who created and run the DIDX service), the special will help customers to provide real phone numbers to their end-users instead of just a SIP address - so they can receive phone calls on a phone number, not just make them," explained Rehan Ahmed, President of Super Technologies, Inc. and DIDXchange (News - Alert).

Through the offer, customers can order up to 1000 phone numbers from the U.S. (specific rate centers) at $150 per month and or 50 Auckland, New Zealand DID numbers at $100 per month.

Ahmed said that no matter where Star2Billing customers are geographically, "they will have a USA presence or presence in any of up to 70 nations and be reachable from even cell phones and landlines off the IP grid.'

Especially for Star2Billing customers, the collaboration makes purchase of blocks of numbers from DIDx, a provider of Direct Inward Dialing or "DID" phone numbers to IP communications companies, "affordable," company officials say: "In addition, the one interop and terms with DIDX will interconnect Star2Billing customers to 16,500 other IP communications providers and millions of phone numbers."