That’s more than we’d charge for your entire phone service for the year.  You sure you want to have your system hosted with these clowns?

Here’s the reason it’s so expensive:  Like most of these companies that are app-centric instead of phone centric, they use Twilio for their back end.  Twilio has a retail price of $1/number and even with 4k phone numbers, they quoted us 80 cents per number.  Zoom then marks that up to sell to you.  In contrast, we currently pay Bandwidth 15 cents per number, and Commio is at 20 cents.  The way we price it, a company with 409 phone numbers and 284 phones pays us about $1400/mo all in.

Depending on your location, Twilio can present a bunch of extra challenges.  They have a particularly big issue with serving Phoenix area phone numbers for example (where we are).  They short-recycle numbers (illegally) and still rarely have inventory for us.  They push out of area numbers onto users in Tucson and Flagstaff constantly, without telling them.  Etc.



On Nov 1, 2026 at 3:39:01 AM, Pinchas Neiman via VoiceOps <voiceops@voiceops.org> 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 through 973-290-4999 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
Morristown, NJ  07960

e-mail:  rloneker@steu.edu


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