Get a local business phone number in Minot, ND

Minot area codes

Minot, in Ward County, North Dakota, had a Census-estimated population of 47,440 in July 2024. All 19 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 701. Minot is in the Central and Mountain time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 701 are dialed as seven digits and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Minot exchanges by carrier

4 carriers hold the 19 exchanges assigned to Minot's rate center. SRT Communications, INC. has the most, with 8. 6 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. Holding a code means NANPA assigned that block of numbers to the carrier for this rate center; individual numbers may since have been ported elsewhere.

Minot phone prefixes

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Minot. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2004. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Minot's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Minot

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 701 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Businesses around Minot

Minot is part of the Minot, ND metro area, home to 75,938 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 2,293 business establishments in the Minot, ND metro area in 2023, employing 25,991 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (316), construction (282), and other services (except public administration) (231).

A Minot number on Callata

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 Minot, 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.

The comparison below uses 11 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Minot, ND metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $274.45 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $330.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. On Callata the same 11 people cost $219.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.