Callcentric North America Basic question: Number parking

[lambo]

I signed up for it for E911 primarily, but also for outbound calls if Google Voice hiccups.

So on the feature page, it says: "Our North America Basic Plan is perfect for:
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Phone Number Park and Forward Configurations"
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My understanding is that you can't park or port a number solely with a Callcentric outbound plan. Am I missing something? or just wet behind the ears?

https://www.callcentric.com/rate/plans/north_america_basic/

[SteveInWA]

You're right; that statement is too vague to understand what's involved.

If you want to park a phone number ("park" is defined as "I really don't plan to use this number, but I want to keep it active in case I need it again in the future"), then you'd port it to Callcentric and sign up for their pay-per-minute inbound calling option, at $1.95 per month.  This would at least enable inbound calling, which could, for example, be sent to their free/included voicemail.  If you wanted to occasionally call out on that number, or forward that number to some other number, then you could add the North America Basic plan.

[lambo]

Thanks, Steve, that is what I thought-that you had to purchase a number or a number plan in order to do a port. So far pretty happy with the Obi202/GV/Callcentric setup and just knocked about $45 off my Century-Stink bill.

[SteveInWA]

Great!  Heh heh CenturyStink.   When Seattle's carrier was known as Qwest, before CenturyLink bought it, we called it Qworst.