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Verified Nov 1, 2026 · Source: NANPA CO Code Assignment

Which carrier owns 952 numbers?

34 holders appear in the 340 number blocks assigned in 952 of the 786 possible. Lumen holds the largest named share at 53.8%, ahead of Verizon at 7.9%. A further 5.6% sits with holders outside the national carriers, counted together: competitive local exchange carriers, VoIP providers and the resellers behind app-based numbers. These are blocks allocated by NANPA, not customers. Number portability means a block registered to one carrier can be full of numbers now served by another, so the share describes the registry, not the market. The top 16 holders shown account for 100.2% of assigned blocks. Blocks are allocated to rate centers; the largest in 952 are TWINCITIES (329), NORWOOD (8) and NEW PRAGUE (3).

Share of assigned number blocks

Lumen 53.8%
Verizon 7.9%
Frontier 7.4%
Onvoy 6.8%
T-Mobile 5.6%
Other CLEC / VoIP 5.6%
AT&T 4.7%
Spok 1.8%
Windstream 1.8%
Bandwidth 1.5%
Allstream 1.2%
Charter 0.6%
Peerless 0.6%
American Messaging 0.3%
Dish 0.3%
Comcast 0.3%

Of the 340 blocks assigned in 952 out of 786 possible; the 16 holders shown cover 100.2% of them. Each block is 10,000 consecutive numbers. Bars are scaled to the largest holder, not to 100%.

Why this is not “who your caller uses”

Number portability means a subscriber keeps their number when they change carrier, while the block stays registered to whoever originally received it. In a code that has been in service for decades, a large share of numbers are served by a carrier other than the registered holder. The table above is an accurate picture of the numbering registry and a poor proxy for market share.

Returns carrier, line type and reports. Never a name or an address.

Where the blocks sit

Blocks are allocated to rate centers – the billing geography, not the carrier. NANPA truncates their names to ten characters, and in large metros they are telephone zones rather than places, so we leave them unchanged rather than guessing.

TWINCITIES329
NORWOOD8
NEW PRAGUE3

Frequently asked

Which carrier owns 952 numbers?

No single one. The largest named holder of number blocks is Lumen with 53.8%, across 34 holders in total. And ownership of a block is not the same as who serves a given number: people keep their numbers when they switch carriers.

Can I tell someone's carrier from a 952 number?

Not from the area code, and not reliably from the first six digits either. Portability has been in place for two decades, so the block's registered holder is often not the current carrier. A number-level lookup is the only way, and that is what the tool on the area code page does.

What does “Other CLEC / VoIP” mean here?

It is not a company. It is every holder outside the national carriers added together – competitive local exchange carriers, VoIP providers and the wholesalers behind app-based and business numbers. In many codes it is the largest line in the table, which is itself the finding: numbering has moved away from the big carriers.

How many carriers have numbers in 952?

34 appear as block holders in the current NANPA records, and blocks are spread over 3 rate centers.

Sources

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