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Area code 440 was established on August 16, 1997, in a three-way split of area code 216, one of the original North American area codes, [1] to provide relief from central office prefix exhaustion from increasing popularity of cellular phones and population pressure. [2]
In 1997, 440 and 740 were added in additional area code splits. In 2000, 234, and in 2002, 567 were added as overlays. In 2015, area code 740 was overlaid with 220, relieving its rapid depletion. In 2016, area code 614 was overlaid with 380 in the Columbus/Central Ohio area for the same reason. In 2020, 326 was added as an all services overlay ...
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.
Area code 740 was established by an area code split of area code 614 on November 8, 1997. [1] By the end of 2013, exhaust studies indicated that the 740 area code would run out of telephone numbers sometime in 2015. The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio chose a relief plan by implementing an overlay with new area code 220, effective April 22 ...
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Area code 419 was assigned to the northwest quadrant of the state. The overlay area code 567 was created on January 1, 2002. Despite the presence of Toledo, the state's fourth-largest city, 419 had been the last of Ohio's original four numbering plan areas, and one of the few original NPAs not covering an entire state, that had never been split ...