Get a local business phone number in Hope, AR

Hope area codes

Hope city is a Census place in Hempstead County, Arkansas, with an estimated 8,465 residents in 2024. All 11 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 870. 870 is part of an overlay with 327, so a new local number in Hope may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Hope is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 870 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Hope exchanges by carrier

6 carriers hold the 11 exchanges assigned to Hope's rate center. Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless - Ar has the most, with 3. 9 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. The table counts codes by the operating company NANPA assigned them to, not by who serves each number today.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Hope

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Hope's rate center (HOPE). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 1 of the 11 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Hope's exchanges were assigned

The table groups Hope's exchanges by the decade NANPA recorded them as assigned.

What makes a number local to Hope

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

Keeping an existing Hope number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 870 when you pick it.

The local business market

Hope is outside any Census metro or micropolitan area, so the figures below are statewide. County Business Patterns counted 70,452 business establishments in Arkansas in 2023, employing 1,120,356 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (10,566), health care and social assistance (9,072), and other services (except public administration) (7,041).

Business phone service in Hope

Callata Office costs $99 per month for up to 5 people, and each additional user is $20 a month. That covers up to 3 local numbers, calling from a browser or your cell, transcribed voicemail, recorded calls with AI summaries, after-hours routing and E911 on each number.

Porting a number you already use in Hope is free, and business texting is available once the carrier registration (10DLC) is approved; the registration carries a one-time $49 fee. Which specific numbers are open in a given area code depends on carrier inventory at the time you sign up.

AI agents are optional: an AI receptionist or scheduler can pick up when the team is busy or closed, take a message, send a text or email, or transfer the call. They draw on prepaid AI minutes ($0.25/minute), disclose that they are AI, and outbound AI calls require prior consent and are limited to 8am–9pm.

A 16-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in Arkansas. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $480.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $399.20. Callata comes to $319.00 a month for 16 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.