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Area code 242 is the telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for The Bahamas. Area code 242 translates to the letter sequence BHA on an alpha-numeric keypad. The numbering plan area (NPA) was created in a split of area code 809 , which was originally assigned to the Bahamas and many of the Caribbean islands.
(National number 4972, then expanded to four digit local numbers as N.N. 497) Antigua and Barbuda: 809-46x-xxxx (National number 46) The Bahamas: 809-32x-xxxx through 809-37x-xxxx: Barbados: 809-42x-xxxx 809-43x-xxxx (National number 43, then changed to 7D, as 42 or 43) Bermuda: 809-xxx-xxxx (National number 29, then changed to 7D, as 23 or 29)
2 stations (one in Nassau and one in Freeport, a rebroadcast transmitter, commercially run Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas (BCB); multi-channel cable TV subscription service is available (2007).
Users can switch carriers while keeping number and prefix (so prefixes are not tightly coupled to a specific carrier). If there is only 32.. followed by any other, shorter number, like 32 51 724859, this is the number of a normal phone, not a mobile. 46x: Join (discontinued mobile phone service provider) [3] 47x: Proximus (or other) 48x
Nassau: 1956 S A Bahamas Securities Exchange: Financials Investment services Nassau: 1999 Exchange P A BahamasAir: Consumer services Airlines Nassau: 1973 National airline S A Bank of London and Montreal: Financials Banking Nassau: 1958 Bank, defunct 1971 P D BTC: Telecommunications Mobile telecommunications Nassau: 1966 State-owned S A Clonaid ...
[1] On October 5, 1906, the first telephone system was introduced with 150 subscribers in Nassau. [2] Bimini got wireless telegraphy in 1920 and Grand Bahama opened its first Telegraph Station in West End in 1925. [3] On December 16, 1933, the first telephone service to the United States from the Bahamas was introduced.
Calls from the British Virgin Islands to the US, Canada, and other NANP Caribbean nations, are dialled as 1 + NANP area code + 7-digit number. Calls from the British Virgin Islands to non-NANP countries are dialled as 011 + country code + phone number with local area code. Number Format: nxx-xxxx Telephones – main lines in use: 11,700 (2002)
Freeport is a city, district and free trade zone on the island of Grand Bahama of the northwest part of The Bahamas.In 1955, Wallace Groves, a Virginian financier with lumber interests in Grand Bahama, was granted 20,000 hectares (50,000 acres) of pineyard with substantial areas of swamp and scrubland by the Bahamian government with a mandate to economically develop the area.