Transfer my old phone number (from Vonage) to my n...

Disgruntled with the sound quality of Vonage, I revitalized my old Skype account and set it up with a FreeTalk (which, by the way, works great straight out of the box).
My old phone number is still with Vonage collecting dust, but it it the one listed in all kinds of phone books and friends telephone notepads, so it would have value to me if I can retrieve this and link to my Freetalk account.
Problem:  Vonage does not list a phone number where I can talk to someone to get my old number back (which they retrieved from Verizon).  Skype does not list a phone number to  assist me in this.  Go figure, the people who make money on selling phone talk don't want to talk over the phone themselves.
Does anybody have suggestions on how to handle this?

Hi, dandurham, and welcome to the Community,
Unfortunately, I have sad news: as Skype does not support number portability, this is not possible.
Kind regards,
Elaine
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