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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.
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.
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
A new area code is coming to the Upstate. By next summer, 821 will be added as a prefix to the current 864 area code. The South Carolina Public Service Commission on Nov. 28 announced the new area ...
[2] [3] On November 28, 2022, the NANP Administrator set the implementation target for area code 821 to mid-January 2024 by creation of an all-service overlay complex, approved by the Public Service Commission of South Carolina, requiring ten-digit dialing. Permissive calling started there and ten-digit dialing became mandatory in July 2024. [4]
Original numbering plan area 803. Area code 803 is one of the original 86 area codes assigned in 1947, when it was assigned to serve the entire state. [1] In 1995, the Upstate was split off into a separate numbering plan area with area code 864. Until then, South Carolina had been one of the most populated states with just one area code.
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