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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
Area code 864 was created in a division of numbering plan area 803 on December 3, 1995. [1] Projections of 2021 anticipated the requirement of relief from telephone number exhaustion in the Upstate region with a new area code for 2024 or 2025. [2] [3] On November 28, 2022, the NANP Administrator set the implementation target for area code 821 ...
In March 2007, an overlay plan was created for NPA 630 adding area code 331, and 779 was added to 815. With the depletion of new numbers in area codes 312 and 773, an overlay of both of them, area code 872, was created in November 2009, beginning ten-digit dialing within the city limits of Chicago. The remaining area without an overlay in the ...
Area codes 803 and 839 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the central part of the U.S. state of South Carolina. The numbering plan area (NPA) is anchored by the city of Columbia, the state capital. It also includes most of the South Carolina portions of the Charlotte, North Carolina and Augusta, Georgia ...
Area code 847 was created on January 20, 1996, in a three-way split of area code 708. Area code 847 was involved in the first trial of telephone number pooling in the United States in June 1998, to avert central office code exhaustion in the numbering plan area. [1] Nevertheless, within only five years, 847 was already close to exhaustion from ...
The new area code was one of the first area codes not serving an entire state, but having the digit 0 in the middle position of the code. It was the only new area code created in Illinois between 1947 and the 1989 creation of area code 708. [2] In preparation of an overlay plan with the new area code 779, all calls from the 815 area needed to ...
On October 7, 2007, area code 331 began overlaying area code 630, making ten-digit dialing mandatory in the area. The Illinois side of the Chicago area– 312 / 773 / 872 , 708, 847/224, 630/331 and portions of 815/779 –is one of the largest local calling areas in the United States; with few exceptions, no long-distance charges are applied ...
Customers receiving the 730 area code will be required to dial 10 digits — the area code and phone number — for all local calls, just as customers with telephone numbers with the 618 area code ...