Get a local business phone number in Marks, MS

Marks area codes

Marks city is a Census place in Quitman County, Mississippi, with an estimated 1,241 residents in 2024. All 7 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 Marks may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Marks 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.

Marks exchanges by carrier

6 carriers hold the 7 exchanges assigned to Marks's rate center. Bellsouth Telecomm INC d/b/a South Central Bell Tel has the most, with 2. 7 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.

Marks phone prefixes

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Marks. 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 Marks

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 662 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Businesses around Marks

Marks is outside any Census metro or micropolitan area, so the figures below are statewide. County Business Patterns counted 60,465 business establishments in Mississippi in 2023, employing 956,079 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (11,303), health care and social assistance (7,038), and other services (except public administration) (6,523).

A Marks number on Callata

Callata Office costs $99 per month for up to 5 people, and each additional user is $20 a month. That covers up to 3 local numbers, calling from a browser or your cell, transcribed voicemail, recorded calls with AI summaries, after-hours routing and E911 on each number.

If you already have a number in Marks, 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.

A 16-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in Mississippi. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $480.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $399.20. On Callata the same 16 people cost $319.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.