Vonage Rings Up Canada

Vonage, the USA’s fastest growing and largest SIP based carrier, has announced call origination services for Canada.

In many ways this is a siginificant announcement because it marks the first time a USA SIP based carrier has offered service outside the USA “officially.” Canadians can also pick and choose what area code they want, meaning a person in Vancouver (604) can have a Toronto (416) number and vice versa. What’s more they can also have a virtual number in the United States. This is great for the many Snowbirds who travel to Florida in the winter from Canada as it will allow them to give numbers to thier friends on either side of the border and have the calls terminate wherever they have the Vonage box at the time.

Lastly, the signifigance is of the global nature of Next Generation carriers. We are no longer seeing only wireless carriers cross borders, now, with IP based carriers, we’re seeing the true nature of roaming and termination.