Get a local business phone number in Gatesville, TX

Gatesville area codes

Gatesville, in Coryell County, Texas, had a Census-estimated population of 16,388 in July 2024. All 10 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 254. Gatesville is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 254 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Gatesville

5 carriers hold the 10 exchanges assigned to Gatesville's rate center. Brightspeed of Eastern Texas, INC. has the most, with 3. 9 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 Gatesville

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Gatesville. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 2 of the 10 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Gatesville's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Gatesville

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

Keeping an existing Gatesville number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 254 when you pick it.

Businesses around Gatesville

Gatesville is part of the Killeen-Temple, TX metro area, home to 509,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 7,200 business establishments in the Killeen, TX metro area in 2023, employing 118,554 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (1,106), accommodation and food services (918), and other services (except public administration) (914).

Business phone service in Gatesville

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 Gatesville, 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 Killeen, TX 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.