Obtaining a vanity phone number

I'm new to the Missouri area, originally from South Florida. Had to get outta Florida the population explosion is horrible, it takes forever to drive anywhere anymore.

I'm dealing with a company that had Internet problems. They were paying over $250 a month for a DSL connection with 20 mbps down. I have resolved that issue.

Now I'm trying to get them a vanity phone number for their business. The phones are thru the ISP, however they do not issue vanity numbers, only random generated ones. Looking for suggestions to secure the number. I guess I'm going to try to add/secure it thru my cell phone provider, then get it transferred thru the ISP, any other ideas?

Edited by Missouri2024ca, 28 June 2025 - 12:03 PM.

Edited by MoxieMomma, 29 June 2025 - 01:04 PM.

MoxieMomma 

Thank you, for welcoming me onboard to the forum

Not sure if you read that reply from "Corday" in the other thread I posted...

It was mostly jibberish, it did not address any of my issues, it was basically a rant that had zero solve capability.

I would be elated if there was a better sub forum thread for this question, so I might recieve more replies to help me resolve this issue;

please feel free to move this there.

Tomorrow, Mon 063025 was to be the last day we were hoping to have to deal with BrightSpeed. Now, unfortunately; because our new ISP

will need a few days if not a whole week to transfer our number over, we will again need to pay over $250 for a service that is still setup,

but we are not even using as a failsafe, b/c our current new ISP is leaps and bounds; better, faster, and much much cheaper (paying less than half the BS bill)

I am in dire need of some serious suggestions to:

1. Obtain a second business number, somehow/someway, we know the number we want: 

    Current plan is to secure it to my cell phone plan; then have our ISP transfer it to the business.

2. Does anyone know if we can somehow/someway, tell BrightSpeed we only want their service

    until the 1st or 2nd week of Aug, then we want it cancelled. ( to avoid paying them another OVER

    $250 monthly bill for terrible 20mbps DSL!!! )

I am the companies IT/Office manager, I am the one contacting the ISP directly...

Not on a VPN, not sure what you are pinging, I'm about an hour away from Springfield Mo.

Edited by Missouri2024ca, 29 June 2025 - 02:22 PM.

It is not an 800 #, it is a local number that aligns with our business mantra

We sell a product, I would need the owners approval to post the name here.

Edited by Missouri2024ca, 29 June 2025 - 02:02 PM.

No point in mentioning the name of the business. 

EDIT: Your given local time is GMT +1,....not CDST for Missouri. That is what MoxieMomma was referring to. 

Edited by buddy215, 29 June 2025 - 06:46 PM.

Howdy:

Based on your detailed explanation HERE, you seem to be quite knowledgeable about vanity numbers. 

As such, this is sound advice from HERE:

“You're putting the cart before the horse. Before selecting the ISP, you should have made sure they offered vanity numbers.”

 

As for your issues with BrightSpeed, I expect that you’ll need to contact them directly to sort out the terms of your contract and the services they provide. I don’t expect that we here in the BC forum (or any other forum) will be able to resolve that, or (for that matter) any issues with your new ISP.

FWIW: As for your time zone issue, the BC forum publicly displays in all your posts “local time” in a time zone that is 6 hours “ahead” of Missouri. That is why I asked about a VPN.

I expect this was not the “answer” you sought.

I do hope you find a satisfactory resolution to your ISP issues, vanity number issues, etc.