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The prefixes in the Americas start with one of 1,2,5. All countries in the Americas use codes that start with "5", with the exception of the countries of the North American Numbering Plan, such as Canada and the United States, which use country code 1, and Greenland and Aruba with country codes starting with the digit "2", which mostly is used by countries in Africa.
sr is marketed in the US as being for "seniors". [citation needed] st (São Tomé and Príncipe) is being marketed worldwide as an abbreviation for various things including "street". tc (Turks and Caicos Islands) is marketed as "abbreviation of Türkiye Cumhuriyeti". [5] tm (Turkmenistan) can be used as "trade mark".
The network reorganization standardized this system to using a two-letter and five-digit (2L-5N or 2-5) representation of telephone numbers in most exchanges in North America, [32] or to using an equivalent all-numeric seven-digit numbering plan, as was practiced by some independent telephone companies.
Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in the United States lease wireless telephone and data service from major carriers such as AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile US, or Verizon Wireless, as well as regional carrier United States Cellular Corporation for resale. The largest operator of MVNOs is TracFone Wireless with over 25 million subscribers.
Telephone numbers in Puerto Rico are assigned under the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). Their area codes are 787 and 939. Prior to March 1, 1996, Puerto Rico was one of many Caribbean islands served by area code 809. On that date Puerto Rico was assigned the new area code 787. Permissive dialing of 809 ended January 31, 1997.
Claro was introduced in Puerto Rico on May 18, 2007 as a replacement for Verizon Wireless. It is the wireless arm of Puerto Rico Telephone , which offers landline telephone and data services, while Coqui.Net (bought by Puerto Rico Telephone) manages Claro's ISP and IPTV services on the island.
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.
Hurricane Maria destroyed the internet systems in Puerto Rico in September 2017. [10] Then in 2019, the US Federal Communications Commission stated $950 million had been approved for the rebuilding and strengthening of Puerto Rico's and the Virgin Island's internet infrastructure. [11] Top-level domain: .pr [8]