Telephones, both mobile and fixed landlines have also been used to stimulate uptake of participatory budgeting processes. The municipality of Ipatinga was the first to employ telephony in 2005, by creating a toll-free number for citizens to indicate their preferences for budget allotments, and by sending automated voice and text messages incentivizing citizens to attend the participatory budgeting meetings. Even though a few initiatives have used text messages to support mobile voting, such as La Plata in Argentina and Cascais in Portugal, most of the usage has been limited to mobilize citizens to take part in the voting process either in-person or via the Internet.