Get a local business phone number in Augusta, ME

Augusta area codes

Augusta, in Kennebec County, Maine, had a Census-estimated population of 19,168 in July 2024. All 26 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 207. Augusta is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 207 are dialed as seven digits and toll calls as seven digits.

Augusta exchanges by carrier

7 carriers hold the 26 exchanges assigned to Augusta's rate center. United States Cellular - Me has the most, with 7. 20 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 Augusta

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Augusta. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2009. 2 of the 26 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Augusta's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Augusta

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

Keeping an existing Augusta number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 207 when you pick it.

The local business market

Augusta is part of the Augusta-Waterville, ME micropolitan area, home to 128,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 3,318 business establishments in the Augusta, ME micropolitan area in 2023, employing 49,617 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (524), health care and social assistance (465), and construction (428).

Business phone service in Augusta

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 Augusta 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.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the Augusta, ME micropolitan area, 15 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $450.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $374.25, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. Callata comes to $299.00 a month for 15 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.