These Zoom Phone Billing Guidelines have been established to support the campus-wide transition to Zoom Phone, scheduled for completion by the end of the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The monthly telecom charges will be collected for June 2025, but starting with the new fiscal year, billing will be handled as follows:
Auxiliary Units:
E&G Units:
All Units:
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Auxiliary units will be billed $270 per Zoom Phone line, assessed at the beginning of each fiscal year.
The charge is based on the unit’s active line count as of the billing date.
Units may add or remove lines throughout the year, but no additional charges or credits will apply until the next fiscal-year billing cycle.
E&G units do not incur the annual per-line charge, as these costs are centrally funded.
The university reserves the right to adjust Auxiliary unit billing outside the normal annual cycle when:
A new unit is being established or onboarded mid-year, or
There is evidence of line-count manipulation (e.g., temporarily lowering line usage prior to the annual billing snapshot and reactivating lines afterward).
Zoom Phone operates fully as a soft phone, which generally eliminates the need for Telecom work orders for standard moves or changes.
However, any unit - Auxiliary or E&G - may incur Telecom work order charges if:
The unit deploys physical desk phones, and
Telecom staff must perform work such as relocating a device, activating a network jack, on-site troubleshooting, or other hands-on support.
Work order charges will be applied per incident at the standard Telecom rate.
International dialing may be enabled upon request.
When approved, international dialing will be enabled only for the specific countries supported by Zoom and requested by the department.
Any international calling charges incurred during the billing cycle will be billed to the requesting department based on actual usage.
A long-distance PIN is no longer required.
Calling permissions are managed through the calling plan assigned to each Zoom Phone user.
Zoom Phone's online fax service is the preferred solution for faxing where feasible. For consideration during the migration: By eliminating the need for physical fax machines, departments can improve collaboration and potentially reassign unused fax lines to other users. A single fax number can be configured with a shared fax inbox/outbox, allowing multiple authorized users to send, receive, and monitor faxes from one centralized location in the Zoom app.
If a department chooses to purchase or install a new physical fax machine instead of using Zoom Phone, the department may be responsible for the cost of a Voice Gateway Adapter (VGA).
Additional charges apply for moves, adds, or changes associated with physical fax machines per incident at the standard Telecom rate.
Requests for fax services, including Zoom Phone fax or physical fax machine support, must be submitted through the standard telecommunications service request process.
For both E&G and Auxiliary units, Zoom Phone usage levels, licensing costs, and overhead expenses will be reviewed once every two years.
The university may adjust annual per-line charges (for Auxiliary units) or central funding allocations (for E&G units) based on updated usage or changes in service costs.
Any adjustments will be communicated prior to taking effect.