Here’s a neat little add to your enterprise or web application : phone number verification. I just signed one of my customers up for a trunk’s worth of SIP for some product testing. It asked me for the usual stuff, like user names, addresses and credit card information… and it asked me for my phone number. Then, as part of the signup process, their application called my cell phone, and gave me a confirmation number. I plugged that confirmation number into the web site, and I was confirmed and good to go.
How did they do it? Of course, I’m not sure, but I could do it pretty easily with an Asterisk Box, a service like Voxeo, or I could use our up-and-coming-but-still-under-wraps Outbound Messaging application. Verifying phone numbers on sign up is smart business, and with Voice mashups - it’s pretty easy to do.