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In 1936, AT&T installed the first telephone service extensions to Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and El Salvador in the Caribbean. [2]In 1958, Bermuda and the Caribbean Islands were designated as a large numbering plan area (NPA) with area code 809 as part of a comprehensive North American telephone numbering plan first defined in 1947 by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in cooperation with ...
1995: assigned area code 441 Puerto Rico: before 1996: served by area code 809: 1996: assigned area code 787 2001: overlaid with area code 939 U.S. Virgin Islands: before 1997: served by area code 809: 1997: assigned area code 340 Northern Marianas: before 1997: reached via IDDD using country code 670: 1997: assigned area code 670 Guam
An area code of three digits dialed after the country code determines the area served in the United States and its territories, Canada, and much of the Caribbean. Zone 2 uses two 2-digit codes (20, 27) and eight sets of 3-digit codes (21x–26x, 28x, 29x), mostly to serve Africa , but also Aruba , Faroe Islands , Greenland and British Indian ...
The U.S. Postal Service announced this week that several rate reductions will take effect on Sunday, April 10 -- the first time in nearly 100 years.
Now, 112 years later, anyone in the continental U.S., Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands can participate and the Postal Service has announced a new feature that promises to make it ...
From 1958 to 1999, most of the British West Indies in the Caribbean Basin, Bermuda, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico shared area code 809. By the mid-1990s, with the proliferation of fax machines, mobile phones, computers, and pagers in the region, the pool of available central office codes was exhausting.
For international dialing to Jamaica, the country code is 1. For accessing international destinations from within Jamaica, the international call prefix is 011. Calls from Jamaica to other NANP nations, such as the U.S. and Canada, are dialed as 1 + NANP area code + 7-digit number. Jamaica has a fully digital telephone communication system. [1]
prior to October 18, 1980, the area code served Tijuana, Mexico, and adjacent areas bordering the United States; split of 214; 2003: overlaid by 430; 904: Florida (Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Starke, and most of northeastern Florida) July 11, 1965: split of 305; 1995: split to create 352; 1997: split to create 850; 2001: split to create 386 ...