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Two former JPMorgan Chase leaders, Brent Bahnub and Bruce Marshak, join Quantum General Intelligence's Advisory Board. QGI is betting that banks will only trust AI that can show its work.

SAN DIEGO – Banks are under pressure to adopt artificial intelligence. Their regulators want something AI has struggled to give them: proof.

Quantum General Intelligence (QGI), a San Diego company that builds what it calls “deterministic” AI for financial institutions, says it has an answer. This week it added two people who spent decades policing exactly that kind of proof inside one of the largest banks in the world.

Brent Bahnub and Bruce Marshak, the founder and the general counsel of Apogee Process Improvement, have joined the QGI Advisory Board. Both are former JPMorgan Chase executives. Between them they bring more than 70 years of experience in bank controls, customer disclosures, and lending law.

The appointments strengthen QGI’s standing with the banks and lenders it is courting. They put two people from the compliance side of Wall Street behind a young company whose whole pitch is compliance.

The problem with “probably right”

Most AI tools today are built on large language models. These systems are fluent and fast, but they are probabilistic. Ask the same question twice and you may get two different answers. Sometimes the answer is confidently wrong.

That can be an inconvenience in a chatbot. In a mortgage file, it is a liability. A loan decision, a disclosure, or an underwriting judgment has to be repeatable and explainable, and it has to tie back to written policy. Examiners and courts expect nothing less.

QGI’s platform is designed around that requirement. It pairs language models with symbolic reasoning and formal verification, the kind of mathematical checking used to prove that software behaves as intended. The result is AI whose conclusions can be traced, tested, and reproduced.

“Banks don’t need AI that sounds right. They need AI that is right, and can prove it,” said Dr. Sam Sammane, QGI’s chief executive. “That is a governance problem as much as a technology problem. It’s why the people we bring onto our board matter.”

Who’s joining

Bahnub spent his JPMorgan career on the controls side of the house. He was a Managing Director and Control Officer Executive supporting Consumer and Community Banking and Asset & Wealth Management. He led a Center of Excellence that made disclosures traceable across all of the bank’s customer-facing communications. Every required statement a customer saw could be tracked back to its source and its rule.

He has more than 30 years in financial services, has co-authored five patents, and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and an electrical engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin. Outside work, he chairs the largest Make-A-Wish chapter in the United States.

Marshak is the lawyer who worked alongside him. At JPMorgan Chase he was Executive Director and Associate General Counsel for Consumer and Community Banking. He provided legal support to Bahnub’s Center of Excellence and to the team that remediates customer harm. He later served as Director and Associate General Counsel at Discover Financial Services. Earlier in his career he held senior legal roles at Washington Mutual, PNC Mortgage, Citibank, and GE Capital, covering nearly every stage of the lending lifecycle. He has more than 40 years in the industry.

“Brent built the system that made a giant bank’s disclosures traceable, and Bruce made sure it held up legally,” Sammane said. “That is exactly the discipline we’re bringing to AI.”

A board built for regulators

The two join a QGI advisory group that also includes S.A. Ibrahim, former chief executive of mortgage insurer Radian Group. The board holds its first meeting this month.

The timing is deliberate. Lenders are moving AI from pilot projects into production work such as loan review, underwriting, and quality control. In Europe, the EU AI Act is putting new obligations on high-risk AI systems, including those used for credit decisions. U.S. regulators have made clear that existing consumer-protection and fair-lending rules apply whether a decision is made by a person or an algorithm.

For QGI, adding Bahnub and Marshak is a signal to the market. The company is building its leadership around the same standards its customers are judged by.

“Trust in banking is earned one verifiable decision at a time,” Sammane said. “We intend to earn it the same way.”

About Quantum General Intelligence (QGI) Quantum General Intelligence Inc. builds deterministic, neurosymbolic AI for regulated industries, with a focus on financial services. Its platform pairs large-language-model capabilities with symbolic reasoning and formal verification to deliver auditable, explainable outcomes. QGI is headquartered in San Diego, California. www.qgi.dev

About Apogee Process Improvement Apogee Process Improvement LLC helps financial institutions create and manage regulatory-required content, disclosures, and controls for customer-facing communications. www.apogeepi.com

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As companies race to automate, a Singapore-based leadership coach and AI Expert Veejay Madhavan argues the real risk isn't the machines — it's leaders who stop thinking.

SAN DIEGO — November 9, 2026 — Companies are spending heavily on AI and seeing flat results. A veteran executive and researcher says the gap was never technical.

Imagine a company buys AI. It rolls out the tools, trains staff on the buttons and waits for the productivity curve to bend.

Nothing improves.

For Veejay Madhavan, that scene isn’t hypothetical. It’s the most common story he hears from executives across Asia and beyond. And his explanation is blunt: “The missing piece isn’t technology. It’s judgment.”

Madhavan founded OulbyZ in Singapore after a career he describes as “from the trenches to the boardroom” — more than 25 years leading teams and businesses. Today he coaches senior leaders and is completing doctoral research on how AI is reshaping a workforce that now spans several generations.

A gap AI makes visible — and expensive

Many leaders, Madhavan says, hope AI will close their judgment gap for them. Feed in the data, get out the decision.

Instead, he argues, AI does the opposite. It makes the gap visible — and expensive. Poor decisions that once stayed contained inside one meeting or one department now run at machine speed across the whole organization.

He calls the result a “complexity tax”: the hidden cost companies pay when they add powerful tools without the human clarity to direct them.

Clarity costs something

That idea runs through his book, Clarity Demands Collateral, which is built around one uncomfortable question for leaders: What are you willing to lose to live in truth?

The point, Madhavan says, is that real clarity is never free. It requires a leader to give up comfortable assumptions about the business, the team and themselves.

He sees those assumptions most clearly at the top. Ask a CEO about the company’s strategic workforce plan, he says, and many will point to HR. “I said, no, you are responsible for it,” he recalled. “You have to decide what is the direction of the company.”

He frames it as a two-way view. A leader has to see two levels up — where the company must be in three years — and step down into the ground-level reality of how work actually gets done. “Without that,” he said, “I cannot plan for the future.”

Measuring what dashboards miss

To make judgment measurable, Madhavan developed Clarity, a 29-question diagnostic across five pillars, from vision-to-action to execution to contextual judgment. It’s based on his doctoral research and years of client engagements.

The tool works like a stress test. Based on a company’s size and answers, it estimates the hit to financial and productivity performance and flags the next priority to fix.

His second tool, a platform called PACE, tracks leaders over time. It combines the decisions people make and how they show up in productivity with a read on their contextual judgment.

Madhavan says he built it partly out of frustration. Years ago he advised a company against promoting a particular executive into the top job. The company went ahead anyway, and in his telling, it was still recovering years later. “I realized that time I didn’t have enough data to show why my recommendation was a better choice,” he said.

Now, he says, leaders can triangulate both execution and judgment to decide who is right for the role.

Lived experience over slide decks

Madhavan is openly skeptical of transformation advice from people who have never run a business. What clients need, he argues, is a sounding board with real-world results behind it — shareholder value and impact on communities, not billable hours.

“That’s the difference,” he said. “I have lived experience.”

His bottom line for executives watching their AI investments stall: stop looking for the next tool. Look at the thinking behind the tools you already have.

Veejay Madhavan is the founder of

OulbyZ, an executive coach, TEDx speaker and author of Clarity Demands Collateral.

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After the October jobs report showed another month of manufacturing gains, Gunn warns that the real bottleneck isn’t machines or factories. It’s the people trained to run them.

Nov 9, 2026, San Diego ,CA – U.S. manufacturing added 19,000 jobs in October, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics report released November 6. The sector has now added 101,000 jobs since December 2025. Machinery and primary metals manufacturers were among the gains, and the factory workweek held at 40.5 hours with overtime edging up.

Tony Gunn is a machinist and a famous manufacturing commentator who has visited shop floors in more than 70 countries. He calls the numbers encouraging but says they hide a harder problem.

“The headline is good news. Shops are hiring again. But every shop owner I talk to says the same thing: they can buy the machine in a month, and it takes years to develop the person who can program it, set it up and hold a tolerance. That’s the number nobody’s reporting.”

Automation is raising the bar for workers

This is what new manufacturing jobs look like now. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the sector’s hiring rebound comes with higher barriers to entry, as automation creates roles that demand more technical skill. The Reshoring Initiative’s 2026 survey found that 63% of OEMs plan U.S. investments through 2027, and it named the skilled-worker shortage as one of the biggest obstacles to that growth.

The BLS projects about 34,000 openings every year for machinists and tool and die makers, mostly to replace workers who are retiring.

“People assume robots replace machinists. In practice, automation means one skilled person runs a whole cell. That makes the skilled person more valuable. If they retire and nobody has learned what they know, the cell sits idle.”

What other countries do differently

Gunn points to his time in manufacturing regions around the world. He says the countries that keep their factory workforce strong treat machining as a respected technical career, starting in school.

“I’ve seen apprenticeship systems where a 16-year-old is proud to be on a CNC track. Here, we spent decades telling kids the shop floor was a dead end. If we want these jobs to last, we have to change how we talk about the work.”

Gunn’s recommendations for manufacturers and educators:

• Capture knowledge before it retires. Pair senior machinists with younger workers on purpose, and don’t leave it to chance.

• Cross-train across processes. In a thin labor market, a machinist who can turn, mill and program is worth far more than a specialist in one operation.

• Bring industry into classrooms. Shop tours, CNC programs and employer-backed training show students modern manufacturing as it really is.

About Tony Gunn

Tony Gunn, known as The Worldwide Machinist, is a machinist and global manufacturing advocate who has travelled to more than 70 countries covering CNC machining, automation and workforce development. He hosts The Machinists Club Podcast. More at themachinistsclub.com.

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Former JPMorgan Chase and Discover associate general counsel brings 40+ years of banking and mortgage law to Quantum General Intelligence’s Advisory Board

SAN DIEGO, CA – November 9, 2026 – Quantum General Intelligence Inc. (QGI), developer of a deterministic, neurosymbolic AI platform built for regulated industries, today announced that Bruce Marshak, Managing Director, General Counsel, and Lead Author at Apogee Process Improvement, has joined the QGI Advisory Board.

Marshak will advise QGI on regulatory compliance, legal governance, and consumer-protection requirements across banking and lending. This guidance helps QGI ensure its AI meets the legal standards financial institutions operate under.

Marshak has more than 40 years of financial-services industry and consulting experience. He was most recently a Director and Associate General Counsel at Discover Financial Services, supporting Student Lending Originations and Marketing. Before that, he was Executive Director and Associate General Counsel at JPMorgan Chase (JPMC), supporting the Consumer and Community Banking line of business. At JPMC, he provided legal support for a multi-disciplinary Center of Excellence that identified and created regulatory-required content for all customer-facing communications. He also supported the Consumer Banking team that remediates customer harm, and served in JPMC’s Risk and Controls organizations.

His earlier career covered nearly every part of the lending lifecycle: Vice President of Litigation Support at Washington Mutual, Senior Mortgage Servicing Counsel at PNC Mortgage, Senior Mortgage Origination and Servicing Counsel at Citibank, and Commercial Lending Attorney at GE Capital.

Marshak earned his Juris Doctor from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Illinois.

“Bruce has spent four decades on the legal front lines of banking, from mortgage origination and servicing to consumer remediation,” said Dr. Sam Sammane, Chief Executive Officer of QGI. “As AI moves into lending decisions, that depth of regulatory and legal judgment is essential. Bruce will help ensure QGI’s platform is built to the standard regulators and institutions demand.”

Marshak joins the QGI Advisory Board as it holds its first meeting and as QGI advances enterprise evaluations with lenders and financial institutions. QGI’s platform combines symbolic reasoning, formal verification, and deterministic execution. As a result, AI-driven decisions in loan review, underwriting, and compliance are repeatable, explainable, and grounded in policy.

About QGI: Quantum General Intelligence Inc. builds deterministic, neurosymbolic AI for regulated industries, with a focus on financial services. Its platform pairs large-language-model capabilities with symbolic reasoning and formal verification to deliver auditable, explainable outcomes. QGI is headquartered in San Diego, California. www.qgi.dev

About Apogee Process Improvement: Apogee Process Improvement LLC helps financial institutions create and manage regulatory-required content, disclosures, and controls for customer-facing communications. www.apogeepi.com

Media Contact: Dr. Sam Sammane, Chief Executive Officer, Quantum General Intelligence Inc., 5820 Oberlin Dr, San Diego, CA 92121, sam@qgi.dev

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Madison Seating, based in Brooklyn, outlines how the pellicle mesh seat and PostureFit back support of the Herman Miller classic Aeron office chair have kept its design relevant across three decades of changing workspaces.

BROOKLYN, NY — Madison Seating, a Brooklyn-based seller of premium office seating, today published an examination of the design elements that have kept the Herman Miller classic Aeron office chair in use across three decades of changing workplaces. The overview focuses on the chair’s pellicle mesh seat and its PostureFit back support, and explains why those two features continue to shape how ergonomic seating is evaluated.

Office work has moved from fixed desks and long in-person days toward hybrid schedules, home offices, and shared workspaces. A chair designed in the mid-1990s now serves in settings its designers did not anticipate. The Aeron was introduced in 1994 by designers Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick, and it replaced foam and fabric upholstery with a woven mesh suspension, an approach that was uncommon in office seating at the time. Herman Miller later remastered the design in 2016 and refined it again in 2021.

The pellicle seat and back material is the feature most associated with the chair. It uses eight zones of varying tension, which spread body weight across the seat and allow air to circulate, limiting heat buildup during long sitting sessions. Because the material does not rely on foam cushioning, it keeps its shape and support characteristics over years of regular use. The chair is offered in three sizes, A, B, and C, intended to fit users from roughly the 1st to the 99th percentile of body dimensions, with size B fitting about 70 percent of users.

PostureFit support addresses the lower spine. The patented system uses two pads that adjust independently to support the sacrum and lumbar region, helping maintain the spine’s natural S-curve with the pelvis tilted slightly forward. A knob allows the user to set the level of support. Some Aeron models instead use a height-adjustable lumbar pad controlled by a strap. Other adjustments include the Harmonic 2 tilt mechanism, which responds to body weight; a tilt limiter with three recline positions; pneumatic seat height control; and arms that adjust in height, width, depth, and pivot.

“People often ask why a chair introduced in 1994 still looks current and works well in today’s offices. The answer is mostly in the mesh and the back support, because those parts were designed around how the body sits rather than around a passing style,” said Levi Cohen, Owner of Madison Seating. He added that the company’s inspection and restoration work centers on keeping those original design features intact.

About Madison Seating: Madison Seating is a seller of premium office seating based in Brooklyn, New York. The company offers Herman Miller office chairs, including the Aeron, and provides inspection and restoration work on the seating it sells, along with sizing guidance for buyers.

Businesses and individuals comparing ergonomic seating for hybrid or home offices can review Madison Seating’s selection of Aeron chairs and size guidance at Madison Seating – Herman Miller Classic Aeron Office Chair.

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Ucanpack, a Georgia-based packaging manufacturer, shares insights on how colorful shipping bags help ecommerce brands stand out in crowded mailrooms and social media unboxing posts, drawing on its experience with online sellers.

WINDER, GA — Ucanpack, a Georgia-based packaging manufacturer and distributor, today shared insights on how colorful shipping bags help ecommerce brands stand out in crowded mailrooms and in unboxing photos on social media. The observations draw on the company’s experience serving online sellers of apparel, accessories, cosmetics and small goods. The company says packaging color has become a practical consideration for brands that compete for attention at the moment a package is delivered.

Online retail continues to expand, and with it the volume of parcels moving through homes, offices and shared mailrooms. According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, ecommerce accounts for a growing share of total U.S. retail sales, which means more brands are sending similar-looking plain packages to the same recipients. In that setting, exterior appearance is one of the few brand signals visible before a package is opened.

Ucanpack reports that sellers most often use solid-color mailers to separate their parcels from the standard gray and brown packages that dominate delivery routes. Color can also support brand recognition when it matches a logo palette, and it allows seasonal variation, such as red and green for the holidays or pastel tones for spring. Because the color is part of the material itself, brands can adopt it without commissioning a fully custom print run.

The company notes that social media adds a second audience for packaging. Customers who share unboxing photos and short videos tend to feature the item as it first appears, and a distinctively colored exterior can make a brand identifiable in a feed even when no logo is visible. Ucanpack adds that durability still matters, since a bag that arrives torn or creased undermines any visual benefit. Its shipping supplies are manufactured in Georgia and are available in a range of sizes suited to lightweight, non-fragile goods.

“Sellers often think about packaging color only after the product is finalized, but it is one of the first things a customer sees,” said Press Room for Ucanpack. “Our observations suggest that a consistent color helps a small brand look established and makes its parcels easier to recognize, both at the door and online.”

About Ucanpack: Ucanpack is a packaging and shipping supplies company based in Winder, Georgia. It designs, prints, manufactures, and distributes mailer boxes, corrugated shipping boxes, color boxes and mailers, and related products for individual customers and businesses. The company operates an online platform with a catalog of more than 40,000 products, offers custom printing, and maintains distribution warehouses across the United States.

Ecommerce sellers weighing color options for mailers and shipping bags, and brands planning more recognizable unboxing experiences, can review Ucanpack’s available packaging ranges at Ucanpack – Colorful Shipping Bags.

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DialerBee, the multilingual AI contact center platform built by BroadNet Technologies, released automatic inbound and outbound blending, connectors for eight CRM systems, skills-based routing, voicemail drop and calls through its API in October 2026.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 2026 — DialerBee, the multilingual AI contact center platform built by BroadNet Technologies, has released automatic blending of inbound and outbound work: agents move between inbound queues and outbound campaigns as traffic changes, across voice, SMS, WhatsApp, email and chat. The October 2026 release also adds connectors for eight CRM systems, skills-based routing, voicemail drop on answering machines, Telegram in the shared inbox and outbound calls placed through the REST API. Every item is listed as live today on the DialerBee changelog.

For teams that answer inbound queues and run outbound campaigns at the same time, blending lets the same agents cover both as the balance of traffic shifts, while each company’s administrator decides how far it goes.

How blending works

• Three settings. Each company’s administrator chooses Off, Manual or Auto. Blending is available on the platform and switched on by each company’s admin.
• Workload per agent. The admin sets each agent’s workload.
• Control per queue. Blending can be allowed or blocked queue by queue.
• Emergency stop. The admin can stop blending at once.

Also new in October 2026

• CRM connectors. HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho, Pipedrive, Zendesk and Microsoft Dynamics connect with the customer’s own CRM app credentials; Odoo and Freshworks connect with the customer’s own API key. The full list is on the integrations page.
• Skills-based routing. Each inbound call goes to the agent with the right skills, enabled per queue.
• Voicemail drop. When a call reaches an answering machine, a recorded message is left automatically, enabled per campaign.
• Telegram in the inbox. A company connects its own Telegram bot, and those conversations join the same inbox as calls and messages.
• Calls through the API. Calls can be placed through the REST API with scoped API keys, an IP allow-list, rate and spend limits, and the same compliance checks as the console.
• Insights Command Center. Six headline numbers compared with the previous period, Outbound, Inbound and Risks tabs, and a drill-down from every number into its calls, with CSV export.
• AI agent templates and a test simulator. Eight industry templates in 9 of the 11 supported languages; teams build an agent from their own documents and calls, test it in a simulator, then listen live and take over a call when needed.
• AI voice agent quality upgrade. The agent confirms what it heard instead of asking again, answers every question before it ends the call, books only once the booking is saved, and says times naturally in Arabic.

The same month brought inbound email and web chat into the inbox, built-in ticketing, workforce management with shifts, time-off, schedule adherence and forecasting, AI scoring of every call, automatic carrier failover, and a public status page.

The platform these features join

DialerBee runs inbound queues with an IVR builder of 40 node types, outbound campaigns in four dialing modes (preview, progressive, power and predictive), an omnichannel inbox for voice, WhatsApp, SMS and email, the Layla AI voice agent, and live agent assist with transcription. The interface, answering-machine detection and transcription cover 11 languages: English, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish, Hindi, Urdu, Portuguese and Indonesian. The AI voice agent has run on live calls in Arabic and English.

Compliance-supporting controls (DNC checks, consent with revoke, calling hours per jurisdiction and time zone, and a frequency rule) are applied at the dial, with jurisdiction packs for UAE TDRA, KSA CST, Jordan TRC and Bahrain TRA. DialerBee does not provide legal advice or guarantee regulatory compliance.

Availability and pricing

The new features are live on DialerBee now. Pricing is per agent: Starter at $69 per agent per month for up to 20 agents, Professional at $129 per agent per month for up to 100 agents, and a custom Enterprise plan. Annual billing saves 20%. There is no per-minute platform fee; carrier minutes are billed by the customer’s own carrier. The AI voice agent is a usage-billed add-on on Professional and Enterprise at $0.60 per minute on managed AI. A 14-day free trial includes free AI credit and needs no card.

About DialerBee

DialerBee is the multilingual AI contact center platform built by BroadNet Technologies. It runs inbound queues and outbound campaigns in four dialing modes, an omnichannel inbox for voice, WhatsApp, SMS and email, and AI voice agents with live agent assist, in 11 languages and on customers’ own carriers. DialerBee serves BPOs, collections teams, telecom resellers and regulated contact centers, with particular depth in Arabic and the Middle East. BroadNet Technologies LLC is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. DialerBee is part of the BroadNet Group. Checked, dated product facts are on the DialerBee fact sheet.

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TripoSIM, the travel eSIM from Dubai's BroadNet Technologies, includes TripoSIM Shield free with every data plan: DNS-level ad and tracker blocking plus PIN-protected parental controls that work in 200+ destinations with no app to install.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 2026 — TripoSIM, the travel eSIM from Dubai telecom company BroadNet Technologies LLC, includes TripoSIM Shield free with every data plan: ad, tracker and malicious-site blocking that works across every app on the phone, plus parental controls that let parents decide what their children can open while the family is abroad. Both are free with any TripoSIM plan, with no app to install.

The feature is aimed at a familiar problem for families travelling over the year-end holidays. Children’s phones join new networks in new countries, often with less supervision than at home, and installing filtering apps on every device before a trip takes time. Shield works at the network address (DNS) level instead, so one setting covers browsers and apps alike.

How the parental controls work

Parents choose one of two filter levels and secure it with a 6-digit PIN that only they know, so a child cannot switch the filter off or change its level:

• Kids Safe blocks adult content, gambling, violence, social media, dating, drugs and gaming sites.
• Teen Friendly blocks adult content, gambling, dating and drugs, while allowing social media and gaming.

Setup takes three steps: choose a filter level, set the PIN, and install one DNS profile or hostname on the child’s device. Nothing else needs to be installed on the child’s phone, and the filter stays active in every destination where the TripoSIM eSIM connects.

Ad and tracker blocking for everyone on the plan

For adults, Shield checks each website and app request against a blocklist of more than 100,000 known ad networks, trackers and malicious domains, updated daily, and blocks matches before they reach the device. It uses DNS-over-HTTPS, a standard supported natively on iPhone and iPad (iOS 14 and later) and Android (9 and later), so no separate app is needed. An active TripoSIM eSIM is required; Shield is then turned on from the customer’s TripoSIM dashboard. Details are on the TripoSIM Shield page.

Other options for families and groups

• Family Pack: groups of 4 to 10 travellers get 10% off when they buy the same plan together; each member receives their own eSIM QR code by email and the organiser manages everyone from one dashboard. See the Family Pack.
• Student Discount: students get 15% off every plan after verifying a valid student email.
• Gift an eSIM: travel data can be sent as a gift; the recipient receives the QR code by email with a personal message.
• HomeLink: an add-on that forwards calls made to a traveller’s home number to the TripoSIM app over data, for phone numbers from 18 countries. See HomeLink.

How TripoSIM works

TripoSIM sells prepaid, data-only travel eSIMs for more than 200 destinations, with plans from $1. Customers buy a plan online, receive a QR code by email after checkout and scan it to install the eSIM; the plan’s validity starts when the eSIM first connects to a network at the destination, not at purchase or installation. Because the eSIM is data-only, the traveller’s own number stays active on their primary SIM for calls and texts. Customers can top up from their dashboard, set up automatic top-up, and reach support 24/7 in English and Arabic.

An unused eSIM can be refunded within 30 days of purchase: orders of $10 or more as TripoSIM credit or to the original card, orders from $5 to $9.99 as credit. If an eSIM could not be delivered or stopped working because of a technical issue on TripoSIM’s side, the order is refunded in full.

Availability

TripoSIM Shield and its parental controls are available now, free with every TripoSIM data plan, at triposim.com.

About TripoSIM

TripoSIM sells prepaid travel eSIMs with mobile data for more than 200 destinations, from $1, so travellers can get online when they land without roaming charges or a SIM swap. It also sells a US phone number for calls with the US and Canada and for receiving texts and WhatsApp codes. TripoSIM launched in 2026 and is a product of BroadNet Technologies LLC, a telecom company headquartered in Dubai. BroadNet says it processes more than 300 million messages a day for more than 60,000 enterprise clients.

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BroadNet Technologies has launched USVirtualNumbers.com for the TripoSIM US Virtual Number: a +1 number in an app with 300 monthly minutes to the US and Canada, incoming texts and WhatsApp codes, from $100 a year, as many numbers as needed.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 2026 — BroadNet Technologies LLC, the company behind the TripoSIM travel eSIM, has launched USVirtualNumbers.com, a site for people who live or travel outside the United States and need a US +1 phone number. The site went live at the end of October 2026. It explains and sells the TripoSIM US Virtual Number, a real +1 number that runs in the TripoSIM app on iPhone or Android over Wi-Fi or mobile data, next to the SIM card the user already has. The same person can have as many of these numbers as they like, each on its own plan.

Freelancers with American clients, online sellers, students preparing to study in the US, expats and families abroad often need a number that US clients, offices and apps can reach. A US carrier line usually works abroad only with roaming. The TripoSIM number works anywhere with an internet connection, and no US Social Security number or US address is needed to get one.

What the number includes

• A US +1 number, chosen by state or area code
• 300 minutes a month of calls to US and Canadian numbers, with extra minutes at $5 per 100
• Incoming calls with no roaming charges
• Texts from US and Canadian senders, and verification codes (OTP SMS) from apps, including WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business
• Voicemail, kept for 30 days, with missed-call alerts

WhatsApp and app codes

The number receives the WhatsApp verification code, so users can register WhatsApp or WhatsApp Business on their US number. TripoSIM tested 22 popular apps in October 2026, including WhatsApp, WhatsApp Business, Telegram, Signal, Google, Apple ID, PayPal, Wise and Payoneer. The tested apps are examples, not a limit.

More than one number, no limit

One account can hold several US numbers, for example one for work and one for personal calls, or one for WhatsApp and another for WhatsApp Business. Each number has its own plan, minutes and voicemail.

Price and how to get a number

The number costs $100 a year (about $8.33 a month, with a $5 welcome credit) or $12.99 a month. Checkout is on TripoSIM. Right after payment the buyer completes an identity check with a photo of a passport or ID card and a selfie, which takes about 2 minutes, and then chooses from the numbers available. The buyer gets a full refund if the ID check fails or if the number is not delivered within 72 hours. TripoSIM keeps only the result of the check and the buyer’s name, never document photos. Both plans and their rules are on the plans page.

The site states the number’s limits plainly: texts are receive-only, it cannot call 911 or emergency services, it is an app-based (VoIP) number rather than a US carrier SIM or eSIM, and calls out go to US and Canadian numbers.

Free tools and guides

USVirtualNumbers.com offers seven free tools that run in the browser with no sign-up: a nine-question fit checker, an app code lookup, an area code lookup covering 68 codes in 25 US cities, a cost calculator, US time zones with office hours, a dialing guide and a step-by-step fix for verification codes that do not arrive. Country guides for 25 countries show when the US working day reaches each one, and more than 30 use-case pages, for groups such as freelancers, online sellers, students, expats and small businesses, each include a worked cost example.

Prices, minutes and rules on the site come from one file that is checked against TripoSIM’s live plan pages before publishing, and each fact change is dated on a public fact updates log.

Availability

The TripoSIM US Virtual Number is available now through USVirtualNumbers.com.

About USVirtualNumbers.com

USVirtualNumbers.com is the official guide and sales site for the TripoSIM US Virtual Number, for people who live or travel outside the US. It is operated by BroadNet Technologies LLC, headquartered in Dubai, which also operates TripoSIM. Plans, checkout, identity verification, the app and support are provided by TripoSIM, which also sells prepaid travel eSIMs with mobile data for more than 200 destinations.

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Website: https://usvirtualnumbers.com