Get a local business phone number in Billerica, MA

Billerica area codes

Billerica town is a Census town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with an estimated 42,978 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 41 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 978 has the most (38, 93%). 978 is part of an overlay with 351, so a new local number in Billerica may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Billerica is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 978 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Billerica exchanges by carrier

11 carriers hold the 41 exchanges assigned to Billerica's rate center. Verizon New England INC. has the most, with 10. 28 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.

Billerica phone prefixes

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Billerica's rate center (BILLERICA). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

How local numbers work in Billerica

What a caller sees as "local" is the area code plus prefix. In Billerica, those come from the BILLERICA rate center, as recorded by NANPA.

Keeping an existing Billerica number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 978 when you pick it.

The local business market

Billerica is part of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, home to 5.0 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 133,807 business establishments in the Boston, MA-NH metro area in 2023, employing 2,681,704 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are professional, scientific, and technical services (17,803), retail trade (15,568), and health care and social assistance (15,127).

Business phone service in Billerica

For $99 a month, Callata puts a team of up to 5 on one plan ($20 for each person after that): up to 3 local numbers, unlimited inbound calls, a pooled allowance of 1,500 outbound US and Canada minutes per user, browser and cell calling, voicemail transcription with urgency triage, recorded calls with AI summaries and business-hours routing, with E911 on every number.

If you already have a number in Billerica, 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.

The comparison below uses 20 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Boston, MA-NH metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $499.00 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $600.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. On Callata the same 20 people cost $399.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.