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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 .
Area code 951 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for western Riverside County in the southern part of the U.S. state of California. It was assigned in 2004 to a new numbering plan area that was created by an area code split of area code 909 .
Alaska (all, except the lone border town of Hyder which uses the BC, Canada area codes of 236, 250, 672, or 778 depending on its assigned number) 1957: 908: New Jersey (Alpha, Washington, Elizabeth, Warren, Plainfield, and west-central New Jersey) 1990: split of 201; 1997: split to create 732; 909
The value to give for State=, is the 2-letter abbreviation to include the area code template for this state or Canadian province, or is the full name of the Caribbean country that this area code is located within, e.g. State=NY, State=QC, State=Turks and Caicos Islands.
In 1951, the number of area codes grew to ninety: the State of New York gained area code 516 on Long Island, and Southern California received area code 714, to reduce the numbering plan area of Los Angeles. [23] Area code handbook issued by many telephone companies in 1962 to promote the newly introduced direct distance dialing.
Telephone numbers in Canada follow the fixed-length format of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) of a three-digit area code, a three-digit central office code (or exchange code), and a four-digit station or line code. This is represented as NPA NXX XXXX. [1]
Area code 705 was in danger of exhaustion, but creating a new area code was need to improve call routing from Manitoba and the rest of Western Canada to northwestern Ontario. On March 19, 2011, the remaining 705 numbering plan area area was assigned a second area code, 249, with the configuration of an overlay plan .
Only new accounts and extra lines receive telephone numbers with the new area code. This method requires ten-digit dialing of local calls for customers of both area codes. Since 2007, most territories use overlays for mitigating numbering shortages. Most area code relief plans today do not even consider splits as relief options. [2]