Sprint's PIN gains with 67 Million on-net numbers

Sprint (NYSE: S) debuted its Partner Interexchange Network (PIN) for its business customers in October 2009, creating a community of partners to exchange VoIP service between each other while operating on Sprint's global Tier 1 IP network. The business-to-business wholesale voice traffic exchange has signed up MSOs, ILECs, CLECs, with the partner base standing at 67 million phone numbers. Sprint sees that number growing to 100 million by the end of the year.

As an incentive for new players to sign up, Sprint is introducing termination-only PIN allowing customers to make interconnection arragangments with Sprint's on-net PIN community and their off-net routes. The new offer will provide a migration path for service providers to become on-net PIN partners.

To help new members lower their voice termination costs, Sprint has introduced its termination-only PIN, a service that allows customers to establish interconnection arrangement with Sprint's on-net PIN community and their off-net routes. In addition to lowering costs Sprint says the new offering can serve as a migration path for service providers to become an on-net PIN partner. While Sprint's traditional TDM-based long-distance voice traffic has continued to decline, the PIN is creating a foundation for the growing base of VoIP services.

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