Get a local business phone number in Columbus, MS

What area code is Columbus, MS?

Columbus city is a Census place in Lowndes County, Mississippi, with an estimated 22,820 residents in 2024. All 32 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 662. 662 is part of an overlay with 471, so a new local number in Columbus may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Columbus is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 662 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Columbus exchanges by carrier

11 carriers hold the 32 exchanges assigned to Columbus's rate center. Bellsouth Telecomm INC d/b/a South Central Bell Tel has the most, with 8. 24 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Columbus can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Columbus phone prefixes

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

What makes a number local to Columbus

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

Keeping an existing Columbus number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 662 when you pick it.

Businesses around Columbus

Columbus is part of the Columbus, MS micropolitan area, home to 67,035 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 1,617 business establishments in the Columbus, MS micropolitan area in 2023, employing 22,178 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (304), health care and social assistance (194), and other services (except public administration) (181).

Business phone service in Columbus

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 Columbus, 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.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the Columbus, MS micropolitan area, 14 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $420.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $349.30, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. On Callata the same 14 people cost $279.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.