Get a local business phone number in Gentry, AR

Gentry area codes

Gentry, in Benton County, Arkansas, had a Census-estimated population of 4,672 in July 2024. All 3 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 479. Gentry is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 479 are dialed as seven digits and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Gentry exchanges by carrier

3 carriers hold the 3 exchanges assigned to Gentry's rate center. New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC - Il has the most, with 1. 2 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. Holding a code means NANPA assigned that block of numbers to the carrier for this rate center; individual numbers may since have been ported elsewhere.

Gentry phone prefixes

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Gentry. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2002. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

What makes a number local to Gentry

NANPA ties every exchange to a rate center. For Gentry that is GENTRY, so a number from one of these exchanges reads as local to people in and around Gentry.

If your business already has a Gentry number, porting it to Callata is free and keeps it on your cards, listings and vehicles.

Businesses around Gentry

Gentry is part of the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR metro area, home to 606,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 14,311 business establishments in the Fayetteville, AR metro area in 2023, employing 244,096 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are professional, scientific, and technical services (1,667), retail trade (1,666), and health care and social assistance (1,604).

A Gentry number on Callata

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If you already have a number in Gentry, porting it to Callata is free. Texting from a local number requires a one-time carrier registration (10DLC, $49), and the numbers available in any area code depend on carrier inventory when you choose them.

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Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the Fayetteville, AR metro area, 17 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $510.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $424.15, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. On Callata the same 17 people cost $339.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.