Anonymous Interview 1 with End-Users of DIDX Members

Why do people wish to have a local phone number service over SIP, IAX2 and other protocols? I've conducted some adhoc interviews while traveling in the past year with actual end-users of DIDX members. This is #1 in a series of several 100. More to follow as we have time to post.

"I am actually living and working in Shenzhen, China and make use of the call redirection facilities which you were offering to allow me to selectively forward either to my PC, office, home office, mobile or other locations while traveling as required.

I have recently launched a new company, and advertised widely with the Shenzhen, China number that I took from my telephony service provider. It really doesn't matter if in 5-10 years that there may be no such thing as a phone number as we know it today. For now, 99 1/2 % of the people who want to contact me would rather call a phone number than to send an IM, email or SMS. I don't care to know the technical processes behind this service. I simply need it to conduct business with the people who are important to me at their convenience."