Get a local business phone number in Moscow, PA

What area code is Moscow, PA?

With 2,020 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Moscow sits in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. NANPA lists 5 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 570 has the most (4, 80%). 570 is part of an overlay with 272, so a new local number in Moscow may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Moscow is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 570 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as ten digits (area code plus number).

Phone carriers in Moscow

4 carriers hold the 5 exchanges assigned to Moscow's rate center. Verizon Pennsylvania, INC. 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.

Local prefixes for Moscow

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Moscow. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2022. 1 of the 5 were assigned in 2020 or later.

How local numbers work in Moscow

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

Keeping an existing Moscow number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 570 when you pick it.

Who does business near Moscow

Moscow is part of the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro area, home to 574,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 13,043 business establishments in the Scranton, PA metro area in 2023, employing 238,473 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (2,050), health care and social assistance (1,919), and other services (except public administration) (1,430).

Business phone service in Moscow

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.

Porting a number you already use in Moscow is free, and business texting is available once the carrier registration (10DLC) is approved; the registration carries a one-time $49 fee. Which specific numbers are open in a given area code depends on carrier inventory at the time you sign up.

AI agents are optional: an AI receptionist or scheduler can pick up when the team is busy or closed, take a message, send a text or email, or transfer the call. They draw on prepaid AI minutes ($0.25/minute), disclose that they are AI, and outbound AI calls require prior consent and are limited to 8am–9pm.

An 18-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Scranton, PA metro area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $540.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $449.10. Callata comes to $359.00 a month for 18 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.