Get a local business phone number in Mendenhall, MS

What area code is Mendenhall, MS?

With 2,130 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Mendenhall sits in Simpson County, Mississippi. NANPA lists 5 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 601 has the most (4, 80%). 601 is part of an overlay with 769, so a new local number in Mendenhall may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Mendenhall is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 601 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Mendenhall

3 carriers hold the 5 exchanges assigned to Mendenhall's rate center. Telepak Networks, INC. - MS has the most, with 2. 4 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 Mendenhall

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Mendenhall. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2002. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Mendenhall's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Mendenhall

What a caller sees as "local" is the area code plus prefix. In Mendenhall, those come from the MENDENHALL rate center, as recorded by NANPA.

Keeping an existing Mendenhall number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 601 when you pick it.

Who does business near Mendenhall

Mendenhall is part of the Jackson, MS metro area, home to 606,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 14,359 business establishments in the Jackson, MS metro area in 2023, employing 230,566 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (2,303), health care and social assistance (1,794), and other services (except public administration) (1,484).

Setting up a Mendenhall 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.

If you already have a number in Mendenhall, 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 Jackson, MS metro area, 16 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $480.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $399.20, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. On Callata the same 16 people cost $319.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.