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The expansion of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is the anticipated requirement for providing more telephone numbers to accommodate future needs beyond the pool of ten-digit telephone numbers. Ten-digit telephone numbers have been in use in the United States and Canada in long-distance telephone service since the 1950s.
1882: A telephone company—an American Bell Telephone Company affiliate—is set up in Mexico City. 14 May 1883: The Adelaide exchange was opened, with 48 subscribers. [15] 7 September 1883: The Port Adelaide exchange was opened, with 21 subscribers. [15] 4 September 1884: Opening of telephone service between New York and Boston (235 miles). [23]
This is a list of future area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) that are in the planning stages for relief of central office code exhaustion in the given numbering plan areas (NPAs). The dates are subject to change during implementation as published in the official NANP Administrator Planning Letters .
The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean.This group is historically known as World Zone 1 and has the telephone country code 1.
The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up in 1982 and replaced by a system of competitors.
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Western Union instead attempted to launch a rival telephony system before settling a patent lawsuit with Bell and leaving the telephone business completely in 1879. Financier Jay Gould orchestrated a merger of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company with Western Union in 1881, giving him a controlling share of the merged company. [29]
AST SpaceMobile made history in April 2023 by completing the first two-way phone call via space on an unmodified cell phone. This milestone was achieved using its low Earth orbit satellite, Blue ...