IPEX Telecommunication Operator Has Registered ENUM Domains for All of Its Customers

CZ.NIC association, the administrator of the national domain CZ, announces exceeding of the level of 2,000 registered ENUM domains, covering over 423,000 phone numbers.

CZ.NIC association, the administrator of the national domain CZ, announces exceeding of the level of 2,000 registered ENUM domains, covering over 423,000 phone numbers. Reaching this number of registered ENUM domains has been significantly supported by the telecommunication operator and registrar of the ENUM domains – IPEX. IPEX has registered ENUM domains for all its existing customers; each new customer also receives for its phone number a corresponding ENUM domain. So far IPEX has registered for its customers more than 1,500 ENUM domains.

"We see the Internet calls made using the ENUM system as a great opportunity to obtain new customers, who will appreciate significantly lower calls costs as well as additional ENUM system services," commented Pavel Píštěk, chairman of the board of directors of IPEX, a.s. "We have therefore started supporting the ENUM system in our network and register ENUM domains, as the first telecommunication operator. The registration of ENUM domains for all existing and new customers is the next logical step in our strategy to deploy modern technologies, bringing services with constantly increasing quality to our customers."

"Support for the ENUM-based Internet telephony brings the necessary competitive advantage to alternative telecommunication operators," added Pavel Tůma, manager of the ENUM project in the CZ.NIC association. "We have signals that the ENUM system will shortly become used also by other telecommunication companies."

About the ENUM System
The ENUM system takes advantage of both the classic and IP telephony, enabling users of fixed as well as mobile phone numbers to register special ENUM domains for these numbers, containing directions needed to reach these numbers over the Internet. Numbers with matching ENUM domains can then be called over the Internet for free, no matter in which provider's network the given number is located (including foreign networks). The ENUM system is already operational in several neighboring countries (e.g. Germany and Austria). In the Czech Republic, the task to implement and maintain the ENUM system has been assigned by the Ministry of Informatics to the CZ.NIC association. To learn more about the ENUM system, visit http://enum.nic.cz.

About IPEX
IPEX is a provider of Internet connection and data and voice VoIP services to companies and home users. More information about IPEX and the VoIPEX service is available at http://www.ipex.cz and http://www.voipex.cz.