Get a local business phone number in Altus, OK

Area codes in Altus

With 18,543 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Altus sits in Jackson County, Oklahoma. All 14 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 580. Altus is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 580 are dialed as seven digits and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Altus phone exchanges

7 carriers hold the 14 exchanges assigned to Altus's rate center. Southwestern Bell has the most, with 5. 13 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.

Local prefixes for Altus

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Altus. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 2 of the 14 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Altus's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Altus

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

Keeping an existing Altus number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 580 when you pick it.

Who does business near Altus

Altus is part of the Altus, OK micropolitan area, home to 24,541 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 514 business establishments in the Altus, OK micropolitan area in 2023, employing 6,325 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (103), accommodation and food services (57), and other services (except public administration) (56).

A Altus number on Callata

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 Altus, 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 12-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Altus, OK micropolitan area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $360.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $299.40. On Callata the same 12 people cost $239.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.