Get a local business phone number in Dedham, MA

Area codes in Dedham

Dedham, in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, had a Census-estimated population of 25,485 in July 2024. NANPA lists 41 exchanges for its rate center across 3 area codes; 781 has the most (35, 85%). 781 is part of an overlay with 339, so a new local number in Dedham may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Dedham is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 781 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Dedham

12 carriers hold the 41 exchanges assigned to Dedham's rate center. Verizon New England INC. has the most, with 10. 32 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.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Dedham

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Dedham. 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 41 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Dedham's exchanges were assigned

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

How local numbers work in Dedham

Phone numbers are tied to a rate center, the local calling area used to decide whether a call is local or toll. Dedham's numbers are rated to the DEDHAM rate center in NANPA's records. A business number from one of the prefixes above shows up on customers' phones as a Dedham number.

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 781 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

The local business market

Dedham 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 Dedham

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If you already have a number in Dedham, 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.

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