The math --
Ron has 1000 phone numbers
Ron will have 250 active
--> Ron wants to park 750 numbers <---
Reseller, already feeling excessive:
$8,000 per year (~$0.89/mo/nu)
NumberBarn -- $2.99/mo/no
$26,910 per year
ParkMyPhone -- $24/year/no plus $5 port in fee
$3,750 one time first year PLUS
$18,000 per year
Ouch y'all...
Ron is looking to spend LESS than $8k/year to keep 750 numbers active and
in their control.
Beckman
On Sun, 1 Nov 2026, Pinchas Neiman via VoiceOps wrote:
numberbarn.com says $2.99/mo/no, I know people using them for a while.
On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 11:04 PM Ronald Loneker via VoiceOps <
voiceops@voiceops.org> wrote:
> Good Afternoon -
>
> We are migrating from an on-prem Shoretel phone system to Zoom Phone.
>
> Over 25 years ago, we were assigned a range of phone numbers 973-290-4000
> <(973)%20290-4000> through 973-290-4999 <(973)%20290-4999> for our former
> Nortel Meridian phone system that we ported from Verizon to Windstream.
> Now, with Zoom, we expected to port these lines from Windstream to Zoom
> Phone.
>
> We will probably have 250 or so of these lines active, but I was told by
> our reseller that Zoom could port the lines and park them for us at a
> yearly cost of over $8,000.
>
> This seems excessive - I don’t want to lose the numbers we’re not
> currently using because we might grow departments or add more employees
> plus I don’t want another company to have a number that falls in between 2
> of our numbers.
>
> I’m curious as to what others who have migrated to Zoom (or possibly any
> other UCaaS, system) done in a situation like this.
>
> Another thought was this - is there another company with whom we might be
> able to park lines and port them over as we need them?
> Ron Loneker, Jr.
> Director, IT Special Projects
> Saint Elizabeth University
> Mahoney Library
> 2 Convent Road
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> Morristown, NJ 07960
> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/2+Convent+Road+Morristown,+NJ%C2%A0+07960?entry=gmail&source=g>
>
> e-mail: rloneker@steu.edu
>
>
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