Get a local business phone number in Maynard, MA

Maynard area codes

Maynard, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, had a Census-estimated population of 10,820 in July 2024. All 18 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 978. 978 is part of an overlay with 351, so a new local number in Maynard may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Maynard 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.

Who holds Maynard phone exchanges

8 carriers hold the 18 exchanges assigned to Maynard's rate center. Paetec Itel, LLC has the most, with 3. 16 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.

Maynard phone prefixes

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Maynard. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

Rate centers and local calling in Maynard

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

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

Businesses around Maynard

Maynard 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).

Setting up a Maynard business line

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.

Porting a number you already use in Maynard 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 20-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Boston, MA-NH metro area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $600.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $499.00. Callata comes to $399.00 a month for 20 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.