- Unlimited calling2
- Call controls (call forwarding, transfer, hold, mute)
- Custom voicemail greeting
- Voicemail transcription
- G Suite & Office 365 integrations
- Fax (add-on)1
- Custom off-hours routing
Establish a local presence in Alabama
Area code 205
Thinking of expanding your business into Alabama? You need a local phone number with area code 205—and you can get it as part of Dialpad’s AI-powered collaboration platform. Try Dialpad for free to get set up with a local number!
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Local phone numbers for area code 205: Perfect for sales and customer teams
Local numbers are useful for both inbound and outbound customer teams—and when you buy them from Dialpad, you’re getting much more than just a VoIP phone number.
How it works
All of Dialpad’s paid plans come with a local number included, in this case a number with your local 205 area code.
This gives you full-fledged AI-powered collaboration platform, with features like unlimited phone calls, video conferencing, SMS/MMS messaging and team messages, and more—all from one intuitive, easy-to-use desktop or mobile app:
The lowest plan starts at just $15/user/month, which also includes unlimited calling in the US and Canada!
Next, let’s look at why you might need a 205 area code.
Where is area code 205?
The (205) area code serves cities in Alabama like:
- Alabaster
- Bessemer
- Birmingham
- Homewood
- Hoover
- Tuscaloosa
- Vestavia Hills
Located in the Central time zone, the 205 prefix serves quite a few counties in Alabama, like Jefferson, Shelby, and Tuscaloosa, which together contain over a million people.
All your essential communications features, included with a 205 area code number
A truly unified platform
Dialpad’s not just about phone calls—the desktop and mobile app brings all your communication channels together into one app, from video conferencing to SMS and instant messaging, and even contact center AI if you need it.
Plays nice with any device
Use Dialpad’s desktop and mobile app across iOS, Android, PC, and Mac—or just use your web browser to join a conference call or video meeting, no downloads needed. (Customers and prospects tend to love this because they don't have to download any software to join your online meeting.)
Easy call forwarding
Never miss a call again. Dialpad’s call forwarding feature lets you choose a maximum of five external phone numbers so you can have calls automatically forwarded to your cell phone or landline, a colleague, or another department.
Flexible call routing
Smart call routing gets your callers to the right department or person—without you having to lift a finger. With Dialpad, you can easily set your own rules for specific people or departments, have out-of-hours calls sent to voicemail, and make changes to your IVR without any help from IT.
Shield your personal number
With Dialpad, you can make work calls from your personal cell phone—while showing your 205 area code business number (or any other business phone number you have) and protecting your privacy.
Real-time call transcription
Dialpad’s built-in AI is designed by our own team and integrated directly into the communications platform to transcribe phone calls and video meetings—in real-time. This way, you don't have to be distracted with note-taking and can give them your full attention (and Dialpad even picks up on highlights and action items for you).
Visual voicemail
When you're in back-to-back meetings all day, you can't always listen to every voicemail. Dialpad's visual voicemail feature transcribes your voicemails into text, so you can quickly read them when it isn't convenient to listen to them. (It even emails the audio and text versions to you!)
Get more than a 205 area code number
Try all these features out in Dialpad's AI-powered collaboration platform! Sign up for a 14-day free trial to take it for a test drive. It takes just a few minutes, and you'll be set up with a 205 number too. Or, take a self-guided interactive tour of Dialpad to play with the app on your own first!
Does your business need an Alabama area code?
Local numbers are a great way to make a small business seem bigger, or for larger enterprises to establish a local presence without having to rent or lease a physical location there. With a 205 area code number for Alabama, for instance, you can set up a virtual branch out of cities like Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and Hoover—without having to rent or buy a physical office space.
And if you're running a marketing campaign that's trying to get potential customers to dial your business number, you can increase the chances of them calling if you make it a local number. Typically, people are far more likely to call since they won't have to worry about long-distance charges. And when you call them, they’ll be more inclined to pick up the phone if it's a local Alabama area code on the caller ID.
Alabama has over five million inhabitants, and is home to universities like University of Alabama at Birmingham and Auburn University.
Get your 205 area code business phone number in 4 easy steps
It’s super-easy to look up area codes and add a local number in Dialpad. When you sign up for a free 14-day trial, which takes just a few minutes, you’ll also be set up with a phone number with your area code of choice—in this case, a 205 area code.
Or, if you’re already with Dialpad, it’s easy to add another VoIP number or do an area code lookup too:
Step 1. Navigate to Settings
Step 2. Choose “Add a Number”
Step 3. Check your local licenses and add a business phone line
Step 4. Confirm the new phone number or select it from the Change menu.
That’s it!
Get a communications platform along with your 205 area code number
All Standard plan features, plus:
- Local number support in 50+ countries
- CRM integrations (Salesforce, Hubspot)
- 24/7 phone support
- Unlimited meetings
- 5 hour meeting duration
- API & webhooks
- 10 offices
- 25 ring groups (departments)
- Hold queues
- International SMS
- Zapier, Zendesk, Slack integrations and more
- Deskphone support