Get a local business phone number in Newport, AR

What area code is Newport, AR?

With 8,049 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Newport sits in Jackson County, Arkansas. NANPA lists 8 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 870 has the most (7, 88%). 870 is part of an overlay with 327, so a new local number in Newport may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Newport 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.

Newport exchanges by carrier

5 carriers hold the 8 exchanges assigned to Newport's rate center. Southwestern Bell has the most, with 3. 7 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.

Newport phone prefixes

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Newport. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 1 of the 8 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Newport's exchanges were assigned

Assignment dates show when each block of Newport numbers was added to the local supply.

Rate centers and local calling in Newport

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

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

Who does business near Newport

Newport 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).

A Newport number on Callata

Callata is a business phone system priced at $99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user. Callata Office includes up to 3 local business numbers, unlimited inbound calling, 1,500 pooled outbound US and Canada minutes per user each month, a browser softphone that can also ring your cell, voicemail with transcription, call recording with AI summaries, business-hours routing and E911 on every number.

If you already have a number in Newport, 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.

Optional AI agents (receptionist, sales, support or scheduler) can answer calls after hours or when nobody picks up, take messages, text, email and transfer to your team. They are billed from prepaid AI minutes at $0.25 per minute, identify themselves as AI, and may only place outbound calls to people who consented, between 8am and 9pm.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in Arkansas, 16 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $480.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $399.20, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. On Callata the same 16 people cost $319.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.