About Us
General Overview
- Wasn't the internet supposed to make phone calls inexpensive?
- Well, that's been our mission since day one. If you've done any research looking for ways to make and receive calls with a phone number, you've probably encountered companies charging exorbitant fees for something that you thought should be relatively cheap.
- We provide phone numbers (local and toll-free) for businesses and individuals all across the globe.
- The "FlyNumber" can be used with any device or software. You can port-in your own phone number or port-out a phone number if need be.
Early Beginnings
- FlyNumber was founded in 2011 out of Brooklyn, New York.
- We started off as a simple "call forwarding" service that has since evolved into a full VoIP services company.
- Our phone system was first introduced circa 2013.
- Our founder came from a family business that ran local mom-and-pop supermarkets out of New York City. Keeping costs down and passing savings along to the customer is our middle name.
- The founder, Nader Jaber, is a native New Yorker, specifically from Queens, NY - "the most linguistically and ethnically diverse place on Earth" [1].
Our Mission
- To bring high-quality, low-cost phone services via the internet to the masses.
- First some background: Before the internet became mainstream, a business usually would need a very expensive on-premises phone system (PBX) where each desktop phone or fax machine would act as an "extension." Each extension would connect to a piece of central hardware that would route the calls. [2] In most cases, you also needed some sort of technician to manage all this.
- While the costs have gone down since the '80s, there has been a recent trend in telecom where a business needs to pay "per seat" or, in other words, per user. We've seen cases where this can be upwards of $40 a user!
- A startup with three employees could be paying upwards of $150 a month just for a phone number to receive phone calls. There are many reasons for this, but in our opinion, it boils down to company "bloat." These "VoIP" companies have put themselves in positions where costs are unnecessarily high. We don't want to knock all of them; some have features you may need, and God bless if you go that route.
- Fast forward to today: That same on-premises PBX can now stay in the "cloud," managed by virtual servers at a significantly reduced cost. The system is usually managed via a website and front-end UI. In most cases, this is user-friendly, and a business owner can update settings as needed, when needed.
- We're taking it a step further. We don't charge per user; instead, our service is set up to charge you per phone number. Have five employees that all need to receive calls from the same phone number? It's a flat charge for our cloud PBX-phone system ($14.95 a month) and applies to the entire account. You can add more phone numbers (which start as low as $2.95 for all USA, U.K., and Canada numbers) as needed.
- You don't have to be a business to use us. Many of our users use FlyNumber for personal use. You also don't need to use our cloud PBX-phone system at all; you can use your own VoIP solution or just forward the FlyNumber directly to a VoIP address or any regular phone number in the world.
- Conclusion: The fact of the matter is that despite how telecom has changed over the years, phone numbers are still very important. From a new website that needs a phone number on their contact us page to an individual who needs a local phone number to post on their resume. Buy phone numbers in bulk or just one phone number, for a month or a decade - it's all up to you, and it won't break the bank.
