A rental near a campus in Athens draws calls from parents and students alike.
List it with a 706 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 706 numbers
Get a 706 phone number for Augusta, Columbus and Athens.
Ask for 706 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Georgia outside Atlanta, from Augusta to Columbus. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 706 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 706 as the area code and give the number a name.
- Hand it out. Calls ring the phone you already carry, and texts land in your inbox.
- Burn it in one tap when you are done. Calls and texts to it stop at once.
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Your numbers
Campus rental
(706) 555-0129
Forwarding
Truck for sale
(706) 555-0166
Texts only
Spare tickets
(706) 555-0183
Texts only
People ask for 706 when the search is in Augusta, Columbus or Athens.
A truck or a boat for sale in Columbus brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 706 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
Spare tickets for a game or a concert in Augusta draw strangers who want to call.
Put a 706 number on the post, and end the number when the tickets are gone.
This is where a 706 number is from.
Area code 706 covers the northern half of Georgia outside metro Atlanta, plus a western piece around Columbus.
The Georgia Public Service Commission names Athens, Augusta, Columbus, Cornelia, Dalton, LaGrange, Rome and Toccoa as the major cities of the area. Metro Atlanta has its own codes.
Augusta, Columbus and Athens, GA
Area code 706 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
404
Split from
1992
706
This code
2006
762
Shares the area
- Augusta
- Columbus
- Athens
- Rome
- Dalton
- LaGrange
- Toccoa
- Cornelia
These are the facts about area code 706.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Augusta, Columbus and Athens, Georgia
- In service since
- 1992
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 762 (2006)
- Split from
- 404 (1947)
706 was split from 404 and entered service on May 3, 1992. Metro Atlanta kept 404, and the rest of the old 404 area took the new code.
The commission approved a second code, 762, on June 23, 2005, and it entered service on May 16, 2006 over the same area. Every local call has been dialed with ten digits since April 3, 2006.
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People ask these questions about getting a 706 number.
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Create a number in your dashboard, type 706 as the area code and give it a name, such as Campus rental. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Georgia: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A landscaper, a mover or a caterer in Rome can put a 706 number on the truck and the website, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the job is done.
Yes. The 706 area takes in Augusta, Columbus, Athens, Rome, Dalton, LaGrange and Toccoa. 762 numbers cover the same area.
No. Your numbers are receive-only: they take calls and texts, and they never make them. You answer calls on your own phone, and you cannot reply to a text from the inbox.
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More area codes
Every fact on this page comes from public numbering records.
The state, the dates and the related codes are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database. The places are from its planning letters and the state’s own pages. Read October 21, 2026.
- North American Numbering Plan Administrator, area code database
- NANPA planning letter PL-346, July 29, 2005
- NANPA industry letter IL-91/10-058 on the 404 and 706 split, October 30, 1991
- Georgia Public Service Commission, 2005 annual report
- Georgia Public Service Commission, spring 2006 newsletter on ten-digit dialing
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