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  2. Area codes 973 and 862 - Wikipedia

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    Area code 973 was created on June 1, 1997, in a split of area code 201, [1] [2] which was the original area code for of all of New Jersey when the North American Numbering Plan was inaugurated for nationwide operator dialing in 1947. In 1958, the numbering plan area of 201 was cut back to the northern half of the state, and in 1991 to just the ...

  3. Telephone numbers in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The prefixes in the Americas start with one of 1,2,5. All countries in the Americas use codes that start with "5", with the exception of the countries of the North American Numbering Plan, such as Canada and the United States, which use country code 1, and Greenland and Aruba with country codes starting with the digit "2", which mostly is used by countries in Africa.

  4. List of New Jersey area codes - Wikipedia

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    973: Essex County, Passaic County, Morris County, Sussex County, and small portions of Bergen and Hudson County. 862: Overlays 973. Area code 201 was the original, sole area code for New Jersey in 1947, when the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) devised the first continental telephone numbering plan. It was also the first area ...

  5. List of North American Numbering Plan area codes - Wikipedia

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    The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) divides the territories of its members into geographic numbering plan areas (NPAs). Each NPA is identified by one or more numbering plan area codes (NPA codes, or area codes), consisting of three digits that are prefixed to each local telephone number having seven digits.

  6. 973 (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    973 is a year in the 10th century.. 973 may also refer to: +973, the country calling code for Bahrain; Area code 973, a telephone code for Northern New Jersey; Program 973, China's National Basic Research Program

  7. Telephone line - Wikipedia

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    Utility pole with electric lines (top) and telephone cables. Fixed telephone lines per 100 inhabitants, 1997–2007. Cross section of telephone cable of 1,800 twisted pairs, 1922. A telephone line or telephone circuit (or just line or circuit industrywide) is a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system. [1]

  8. Hotline - Wikipedia

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    However, in common or colloquial usage, a "hotline" often refers to a call center reachable by dialing a standard telephone number, or sometimes the phone numbers themselves. This is especially the case with 24-hour, noncommercial numbers, such as police tip hotlines or suicide crisis hotlines , which are staffed around the clock and thereby ...

  9. Landline - Wikipedia

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    In 2022, 82.9% of German households had at least one landline phone [18] while 73 percent of U.S. households had only a cell phone, 25 percent had a landline and cell service, and 1 percent had only a landline. [19] As of 2023, Estonia and the Netherlands have retired the legacy parts of the public switched telephone network (PSTN). In the ...