Internode allows Naked ADSL2+ customers to keep home phone number

Internode has launched a new service allowing clients to utilise the company’s Naked ADSL2+ plans during keeping their traditional home phone number for use with Internet calls.

The service – which up until now Internode says has not been technologically feasible – will allow clients to switch from traditional landline plans to naked where no home phone is provided, however retain their home phone number.

Normally by switching to a naked plan, clients lose their home phone number because no landline service is used. Instead they’re forced to rely on a new number provided by a Voice over Internet Protocol provider just as Internode, or not use a home phone at all.

However in what Internode says is a big breakthrough for its clients, it says it has found a solution to the number loss issue that will allow clients to switch to its NodePhone VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) platform during retaining their home phone number.

“We've made it in effect simple,” Internode product manager Jim Kellett said in a statement yesterday. “Clients will keep their existing phone number and broadband service, however will get far more bang for their buck in terms of phone call costs.”

The solution involves the use of phone lines using a Spectrum-Sharing Service that can easily be converted to naked broadband by switching to an Unconditioned Local Loop meaning the phone number can be retained.