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Perham area codes

Perham city is a Census place in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, with an estimated 3,708 residents in 2024. All 4 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 218. Perham is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 218 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Perham

2 carriers hold the 4 exchanges assigned to Perham's rate center. Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless - MN has the most, with 2. 1 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 Perham

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Perham. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2003. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

What makes a number local to Perham

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

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Businesses around Perham

Perham is part of the Fergus Falls, MN micropolitan area, home to 60,884 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 1,730 business establishments in the Fergus Falls, MN micropolitan area in 2023, employing 18,813 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are construction (253), retail trade (252), and other services (except public administration) (214).

Business phone service in Perham

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