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Area code 308
Area code 308 is centred on Grand Island, Nebraska. We hold 2,272 allocated blocks for it across 167 rate centres, split 43% mobile, 43% landline and 14% VoIP.
The towns inside area code 308
Area code 308 is not a city code. It covers 167 separate rate centres — billing areas, each its own local calling zone. The largest of them are named in the table below.
That matters twice over. A call between two 308 numbers is not necessarily a local call, because they can sit in different rate centres. And a code this wide narrows a subscriber to a region rather than a town.
Nebraska is split across 3 area codes — 402, 531, 308. By allocated blocks 308 is the third largest of them, holding 22% of the Nebraska total.
Where 308 numbers are concentrated
NANPA truncates rate-centre names to ten characters and drops the spaces, which is why Central Cy and St Paul are shortened. Names are reproduced as recorded rather than expanded — the abbreviation is the key the block data is filed under.
| Rate centre | Blocks | Share of 308 |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Is | 261 | 11% |
| Kearney | 119 | 5% |
| No Platte | 111 | 5% |
| Scotsbluff | 73 | 3% |
| Lexington | 57 | 3% |
| No Julesbg | 47 | 2% |
| Minden | 45 | 2% |
| Ogallala | 44 | 2% |
| Mccook | 43 | 2% |
| Gothenburg | 40 | 2% |
| Holdrege | 40 | 2% |
| Broken Bow | 38 | 2% |
| Kimball | 33 | 1% |
| Central Cy | 32 | 1% |
| Chadron | 31 | 1% |
| Alliance | 29 | 1% |
| Sidney | 29 | 1% |
| Elwood | 27 | 1% |
| Grant | 27 | 1% |
| Imperial | 27 | 1% |
| Fullerton | 26 | 1% |
| Lyman | 26 | 1% |
| St Paul | 26 | 1% |
| Bridgeport | 25 | 1% |
143 further rate centres in 308 hold fewer blocks than these.
Carriers holding the most 308 blocks
Onvoy371 blocks
Verizon Wireless329 blocks
Qwest Corporation190 blocks
AT&T Wireless190 blocks
Level 3 Communications, Llc - Ne (Centurylink, Inc)101 blocks
United States Cellular84 blocks
The largest holder, Onvoy, has 16% of the code.
These are original allocations. A number keeps its digits and its block when its subscriber moves network, so a ported 308 number still reports the carrier it started with. Closing that gap needs a live query against the routing database. How line type is derived.
Check a single 308 number, or run a whole list through the free cleaner — neither uploads anything.
Common questions
Where is area code 308?
Area code 308 is centred on Grand Island, Nebraska and spans 167 rate centres, so it covers a region rather than a town.
Is a 308 number a mobile or a landline?
It can be either, and the digits do not say which. North American mobile and landline numbers share the same ranges, so the answer comes from the carrier holding the block. In 308 the split runs 43% mobile, 43% landline and 14% VoIP, so mobile is the most likely single answer.
Which carriers hold 308 numbers?
The largest holders are Onvoy, Verizon Wireless, Qwest Corporation. That is the carrier the block was allocated to, which is not necessarily the network a given number sits on today.
How many 308 numbers are there?
The code holds 2,272 allocated blocks in our copy of the numbering plan. A block is 1,000 or 10,000 consecutive numbers depending on how deeply it has been pooled, so 308 covers on the order of 2,272,000 possible numbers — most of which have never been issued to anyone.