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Here’s when and which residents will get new numbers. South Carolina is getting its sixth area code in the near future. Here’s when and which residents will get new numbers.
In summer 2024, South Carolina will receive a new 821 area code alongside the existing 864 area code, bringing the total number of area codes in the state to six.
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 .
In January, a six-month permissive dialing period began to give customers enough time to adapt to the dialing changes.
Area codes are also assigned for non-geographic purposes. The rules for numbering NPAs do not permit the digits 0 and 1 in the leading position. [1] Area codes with two identical trailing digits are easily recognizable codes (ERC). NPAs with 9 in the second position are reserved for future format expansion.
Map of South Carolina area codes. The state of South Carolina is served by the following area codes: 803 / 839, which serves the Midlands (central) of South Carolina, including Columbia; 843 / 854, which serves the Lowcountry (eastern and coastal) of South Carolina; 864 / 821, which serves Upstate (northwest) South Carolina
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