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Bandwidth.com CLEC, LLC supplies phone numbers to apps, software companies and internet phone services.

Bandwidth.com CLEC, LLC is the phone company arm of Bandwidth Inc., a company based in Raleigh, North Carolina. It supplies phone numbers, calling and texting to software companies, internet calling apps and business phone services, which give the numbers to their own users. NANPA, which runs the North American numbering plan, lists Bandwidth as the holder of 4,804 prefixes in 49 states and territories, 2.4% of the 198,436 prefixes it has assigned.

Name in NANPA's file
BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC, LLC - CA, and 48 other listings
What it is
Supplies numbers to VoIP and app-based phone services
Prefixes held
4,804 of 198,436 (2.4%)
States and territories
49 of 56, most in California, New York and Texas
Area codes
341
Pooled prefixes
98%, shared in blocks of 1,000 numbers

From NANPA's central office code file of October 1, 2026. A prefix is the three digits after the area code.

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A lookup shows Bandwidth when the number comes from a service that gets its numbers there.

Bandwidth rarely sells phone service to the person using the number. Internet calling apps, VoIP phone systems, call centers and business phone services get their numbers from carriers like Bandwidth, so a lookup shows the carrier behind the service, not the service itself.

Numbers can also move between carriers, so a lookup reads the number's carrier today, and a number with a Bandwidth prefix can show another company if it was ported.

Bandwidth holds the most prefixes in California: 812 of its 4,804.

Bandwidth prefixes by state

Plus 2,262 prefixes in 41 more states and territories.

Bandwidth holds prefixes in 341 area codes, and these are its largest.

Of the prefixes NANPA dates, Bandwidth received the most in 2022: 394.

NANPA's file gives an assignment date for 3,816 of Bandwidth's 4,804 prefixes, all from 2001 on. The rest have no date in the file.

New Bandwidth prefixes by year
394
200120222026

A call from a Bandwidth number is not spam just because of the carrier.

Numbers from wholesale carriers like Bandwidth are used by ordinary people on calling apps and by real businesses. They are also cheap and quick to get, so some robocallers use them too.

The carrier name alone does not make a call safe or spam: judge it by what the caller asks for, and be careful with anyone who asks for money, codes or passwords.

Check the full number with our free spam phone checker before you call back.

These are the questions people ask about Bandwidth.

What is Bandwidth.com CLEC, LLC?

Bandwidth.com CLEC, LLC is the phone company arm of Bandwidth Inc., a company based in Raleigh, North Carolina. It supplies phone numbers, calling and texting to software companies, internet calling apps and business phone services, which give the numbers to their own users.

Why does a phone lookup say Bandwidth?

A lookup shows Bandwidth when the number comes from a service that gets its numbers there. Bandwidth rarely sells phone service to the person using the number. Internet calling apps, VoIP phone systems, call centers and business phone services get their numbers from carriers like Bandwidth, so a lookup shows the carrier behind the service, not the service itself. Numbers can also move between carriers, so a lookup reads the number's carrier today, and a number with a Bandwidth prefix can show another company if it was ported.

Is a call from a Bandwidth number spam?

Numbers from wholesale carriers like Bandwidth are used by ordinary people on calling apps and by real businesses. They are also cheap and quick to get, so some robocallers use them too. The carrier name alone does not make a call safe or spam: judge it by what the caller asks for, and be careful with anyone who asks for money, codes or passwords. Check the full number with our free spam phone checker before you call back.

How many phone prefixes does Bandwidth hold?

NANPA lists Bandwidth as the holder of 4,804 prefixes, 2.4% of all assigned US prefixes. A prefix is the three digits after the area code and covers up to 10,000 numbers. 98% of these are pooled, so blocks of 1,000 numbers inside them can belong to other carriers.

Which states have the most Bandwidth prefixes?

California (812), New York (397) and Texas (362) have the most, out of 49 states and territories.

Can I find out who owns a Bandwidth number?

Bandwidth does not publish who uses its numbers. Our free who called me lookup shows who a US number is listed to and the city and state on the listing, when the number has a listing.

What does CLEC mean in Bandwidth.com CLEC?

CLEC stands for competitive local exchange carrier: a phone company licensed to compete with the original local phone company in an area. It is a type of license, not a separate brand.

Source: NANPA, the North American Numbering Plan Administrator: its central office code assignments, as of October 1, 2026. Company histories are from public records and each company's own descriptions.