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A new overlay area code, 437, started operation on March 25, 2013. [6] [7] That effectively allocates 24 million numbers to a city of 2.5 million people. Area code 942 is scheduled for addition to the 416/647/437 overlay on April 26, 2025. [8] Area code 387 has been reserved for Toronto's future use.
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 for 937. Area code 283 was added as an overlay for 513 on April 28, 2023. [2] [3] Area code 436 went into service on March 1, 2024, as an overlay of 440. [4]
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]
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 ...
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 ...
In 2000, area code 283 was reserved as an overlay code for numbering plan area 513. Although permissive dialing began on January 15, 2001, the implementation was suspended, because of the economic downturn and the return of telephone numbers as a result of the abandonment of service by competitive local telephone companies. [ 3 ]
The new area code, which spells out IND on a standard telephone keypad, made 317 the second Indiana area code to be overlaid after area code 812 was overlaid with 930 in March 2015. [3] Area code 463 entered service on March 15, 2016. On that date, a permissive dialing period began during which both seven- and ten-digit calls would be able to ...
Area codes 614 and 380 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for all or part of four counties in central Ohio, surrounding and including the state capital of Columbus. Area code 614 is one of the original area codes assigned for Ohio in 1947, while area code 380 is an overlay code covering the same territory.