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This map is clickable; click on any region shown to visit the page for those area codes.Area codes 415 and 628 are shown in red. Area codes 415 and 628 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the city of San Francisco and its northern suburbs in Marin County (across the Golden Gate ), and the northeast corner of ...
Codes 880 through 882 were used (until 1 April 2004) to allow international customers to access toll-free numbers they otherwise could not by paying the international portion of the toll. 880 was paired with 800, 881 with 888, and 882 with 877. [21] 888: toll-free telephone service: March 1, 1996: created; 889: not in use; available for toll ...
In the 1992 film Sneakers, the NSA agent Mary gives her telephone number as (415) 273-9164. [4] In 1992, filmmaker Michael Moore unwittingly included footage of himself reciting his telephone number in the documentary Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint. He received 314 phone calls in just the first day following its broadcast on PBS. [5]
In 1947, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) devised the first nationwide telephone numbering plan and assigned the original North American area codes. The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes : 213 , 415 , and 916 , for the southern, central, and northern parts of the ...
Toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering Plan have the area code prefix 800, 833, 844, 855, 866, 877, or 888.Additionally, area codes 822, 880 through 887, and 889 are reserved for toll-free use in the future.
National telephone numbers are defined by national or regional numbering plans, such as the European Telephony Numbering Space, the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), or the UK number plan. Within a national numbering plan, a complete destination telephone number is typically composed of an area code and a subscriber telephone number.
Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Telephone country codes, but also sometimes referred to as "country dial-in codes", or historically "international subscriber dialing" (ISD) codes in the U.K., are telephone number dialing prefixes for reaching subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.
The preferred arrangement, over timing, was the prefix method, in which the subscriber had to start dialing ten-digit calls with a 0 or 1 preceding the full telephone number. The preference was based on Bell System behavioral research, but technical aspect also favored this arrangement in some cases, in that it could shorten post-dial delay ...