Get a local business phone number in Pennington Gap, VA

Area codes in Pennington Gap

With 1,575 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Pennington Gap sits in Lee County, Virginia. All 5 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 276. Pennington Gap is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 276 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Pennington Gap

5 carriers hold the 5 exchanges assigned to Pennington Gap's rate center. Onvoy, LLC - Va has the most, with 1. 5 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Pennington Gap can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Local prefixes for Pennington Gap

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Pennington Gap. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2009. 1 of the 5 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Pennington Gap's exchanges were assigned

The table groups Pennington Gap's exchanges by the decade NANPA recorded them as assigned.

What makes a number local to Pennington Gap

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

If your business already has a Pennington Gap number, porting it to Callata is free and keeps it on your cards, listings and vehicles.

The local business market

Pennington Gap is outside any Census metro or micropolitan area, so the figures below are statewide. County Business Patterns counted 210,842 business establishments in Virginia in 2023, employing 3,581,650 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are professional, scientific, and technical services (32,231), retail trade (25,872), and health care and social assistance (23,812).

Business phone service in Pennington Gap

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.

Porting a number you already use in Pennington Gap 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.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in Virginia, 17 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $510.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $424.15, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. Callata comes to $339.00 a month for 17 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.