Local Calling

Local calling is at the whim of your local provider, who files with your locality's regulatory body based on consumer demand and costing methods. Normally, petitioning your provider and/or regulator en masse can facilitate changes in local calling area.

 

Local Calling Guide courtesy Ray Chow

This site is an extension to the original local calling guide, which covered Canada and some nearby US states (Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont). You may search the database by NPA/NXX, rate center (exchange) name, or province/state. You may also check for local calling changes within a specified time period. This site contains local calling and NPA/NXX information for Canada plus most parts of the USA (with more being added).

Disclaimer: The information on Ray Chow's site comes from a variety of sources, and is not guaranteed to be 100% complete or correct. Both ours and Ray's site and its editors have no affiliation with any telephone company or organization. As this is a non-commercial project, any use of information from this site for commercial purposes is at your own risk. Updates occur as time permits. For authoritative information, please consult the appropriate local provider.


Search by area code/prefix (NPA/NXX) or OCN

  • Effective date searches are available only for US area codes. Our sources for non-US NPA-NXX data do not provide this information.
  • If you want to search an entire area code regardless of activity, leave both the next and past days fields set to zero.


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