SoVerNet KZ

alias: FirstLight

Small phone company Group: FirstLight

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At a glance

Active numbers
1,606
#249 of 481
Change over 4 years
+302
+23.2%
Opportunism Index
0.45%
Harvested 11 / acquired 2,465
Vanity matches
25.7%
Median inventory age
71 mo
5.9 years since last change
Sub-codes in use
1
KZA01

Inventory by NPA

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By status

  • WORKING 1,589 · 99.8%
  • TRANSIT 1 · 0.1%
  • RESERVED 1 · 0.1%
  • DISCONN 1 · 0.1%

Inventory age buckets

  • 1–3 months 18 · 1.0%
  • 3–12 months 137 · 7.7%
  • 1–2 years 167 · 9.4%
  • 2–5 years 314 · 17.7%
  • 5+ years 953 · 53.6%

Ages are measured from each number's last change in the Somos registry — that's the most recent activation, transfer, or status move. Not necessarily the date this RespOrg originally acquired it.

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Trajectory

Total active inventory Numbers harvested from disconnect pool that month
2K2K1K54202018-032022-112026-04
Show monthly numbers
MonthInventoryAcquiredHarvestedLostFrom spareTo spare
2018-03 1,304 0 0 0 0 0
2018-06 1,305 11 0 10 5 1
2018-09 1,151 10 0 164 6 0
2018-10 1,143 1 0 9 0 3
2018-11 1,140 1 0 4 1 0
2018-12 1,134 1 0 7 0 0
2019-01 1,130 7 0 11 0 0
2019-02 1,128 3 0 5 0 0
2019-03 1,117 1 0 12 0 0
2019-04 1,118 3 0 2 0 0
2019-05 1,112 1 0 7 0 0
2019-06 1,108 1 0 5 0 0
2019-08 1,040 21 0 89 1 78
2019-09 1,678 640 0 2 130 0
2019-10 1,682 11 0 7 2 0
2019-11 1,698 20 0 4 3 0
2019-12 1,705 9 2 2 3 0
2020-01 1,702 4 0 7 0 0
2020-02 1,693 2 0 11 0 0
2020-03 1,702 12 0 3 9 0
2020-04 1,703 5 0 4 5 0
2020-05 1,706 4 0 1 2 0
2020-06 1,736 35 0 5 0 0
2020-07 1,748 18 0 6 0 0
2020-08 1,744 7 0 11 4 0
2020-09 1,758 18 0 4 0 0
2020-10 1,746 1 0 13 0 0
2020-11 1,743 9 0 12 1 0
2020-12 1,752 10 0 1 0 0
2021-01 1,743 5 0 14 1 0
2021-02 1,762 21 0 2 0 0
2021-03 1,777 15 0 0 1 0
2021-04 1,824 66 0 19 0 0
2021-05 1,844 25 0 5 5 0
2022-05 1,902 136 0 78 9 6
2022-06 1,902 6 0 6 2 0
2022-07 1,918 35 2 19 3 0
2022-08 1,970 55 0 3 0 0
2022-09 2,114 150 1 6 0 0
2022-10 2,113 9 1 10 0 0
2022-11 2,119 10 0 4 2 0
2022-12 2,141 28 0 6 2 0
2023-01 2,149 13 0 5 5 0
2023-02 2,145 7 0 11 1 0
2023-03 2,151 11 0 5 1 0
2023-04 2,161 16 0 6 6 0
2023-05 2,158 3 0 6 1 3
2023-06 2,170 19 0 7 3 0
2023-07 1,918 64 0 316 1 11
2023-08 2,170 367 0 115 43 1
2023-09 2,113 7 0 64 1 15
2023-10 2,041 5 0 77 2 0
2023-11 1,560 9 0 490 2 0
2023-12 1,553 77 1 84 5 3
2024-02 1,565 70 1 58 1 3
2024-03 1,560 2 0 7 0 0
2024-04 1,551 1 0 10 0 0
2024-05 1,554 10 0 7 0 0
2024-06 1,532 1 0 23 1 0
2024-07 1,544 13 0 1 5 0
2024-08 1,548 4 0 0 0 0
2024-09 1,540 2 0 10 0 0
2024-10 1,539 1 0 2 1 0
2024-11 1,534 2 0 7 0 0
2024-12 1,556 25 0 3 0 0
2025-01 1,673 127 3 10 100 0
2025-02 1,662 0 0 11 0 0
2025-03 1,662 0 0 0 0 0
2025-04 1,516 4 0 150 1 0
2025-05 1,498 4 0 22 0 0
2025-06 1,501 7 0 4 0 0
2025-07 1,505 15 0 11 2 0
2025-08 1,503 4 0 6 1 0
2025-09 1,581 81 0 3 0 0
2025-10 1,594 21 0 8 10 0
2025-11 1,605 14 0 3 0 0
2025-12 1,593 3 0 15 0 0
2026-01 1,592 3 0 4 1 0
2026-02 1,597 8 0 3 7 0
2026-03 1,602 10 0 5 0 0
2026-04 1,606 8 0 4 1 0

Flow patterns (42-month cumulative)

Inbound (numbers acquired)

Direct transfer from another RespOrg2,199.0
Harvested from disconnect pool30.0
First assigned from spare pool525.0
Reactivated own disconnects33.0

Outbound (numbers lost)

Direct transfer to another RespOrg2,140.0
Standard disconnect aging process (3+ months in DISC)80
Abbreviated disconnect period (1–2 months in DISC)681
Released directly to spare pool36.0

Of the 761 disconnect episodes this RespOrg has sent through aging, 89% were abbreviated (1–2 snapshots in DISC status). That's a strong early-disconnector signal — this RespOrg routinely releases numbers before the full 3–4 month aging window. Worth checking daily for vanity drops.

Top direct-transfer sources (INto KZ)

QY176.0Inteliquent
NB134.0FirstLight Fiber (FirstLight)
JY120.0Bandwidth
VZ53.0Verizon Business (Verizon)
OO39.0Inteliquent
AU35.0ATL Communications (ATLC)
KS19.0Lumen Technologies (Lumen)
LQ19.0Inteliquent
RB16.0RingCentral
ZY15.0Dialpad

Top direct-transfer destinations (OUT of KZ)

JY187.0Bandwidth
AU34.0ATL Communications (ATLC)
ZY33.0Dialpad
QY32.0Inteliquent
AT28.0AT&T
LQ27.0Inteliquent
VE26.0Nex Vortex
RB23.0RingCentral
IG18.0Genesys Telecom
JT11.0Comcast

Top vanity holdings

Summary

Headquartered in Albany, New York, FirstLight provides fiber-optic data, Internet, data center, cloud, unified communications, and managed services to enterprise and carrier customers throughout the Northeast and mid-Atlantic.

About SoVerNet

SoVerNet (SoverNet Communications) was a telecommunications provider offering residential and business telephone, internet, high-capacity network transport, and voice services over a 4,500-mile fiber network in northern New England and New York, founded in 1995 with headquarters originally in Bellows Falls, Vermont.[1][3][4] In 2016, it was sold by ATN International to Oak Hill Capital Partners and merged with FirstLight Fiber and Oxford Networks to form a larger fiber-optic enterprise operating 9,500 miles of network across New York and New England.[2] It now operates as part of **FirstLight**, a private company providing scalable telecom services including private line, high-speed internet, data centers, and voice to retail and wholesale customers.[3][5]

Affiliations: Merged into **FirstLight** (website: https://www.firstlight.net/) by Oak Hill Capital Partners in 2016; previously owned by ATN International.[2][3]

AI-generated summary (confidence: medium), last updated 2026-04-30. Verify against primary sources before quoting.

Recent news (1)

  • Internet service provider Sovernet will be sold 2016-08-09

    Vermont telecommunications service provider Sovernet announced it was being sold to a private equity firm controlled by Texas billionaire Robert Bass. The company will combine with FirstLight Fiber and Oxford Networks.

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