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Original numbering plan areas and area codes of Minnesota in 1952. When the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) created the first nationwide telephone numbering plan for Operator Toll Dialing in 1947 to automate and speed the connection of long-distance calls, the United States and Canada were divided into 86 geographic numbering plan areas (NPAs) and assigned the original North ...
Telephone numbers listed in 1920 in New York City having three-letter exchange prefixes. In the United States, the most-populous cities, such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, initially implemented dial service with telephone numbers consisting of three letters and four digits (3L-4N) according to a system developed by W. G. Blauvelt of AT&T in 1917. [1]
Minnesota (Duluth, Moorhead, Thief River Falls, Bemidji, Brainerd, International Falls, and most of northern Minnesota) 1947: 1954: split to create 507; 219: Indiana (Gary area) 1948: split of 317; 2002: split to create 260 and 574; 220: Ohio (suburban Columbus, central Ohio outside of Franklin County) April 22, 2015: overlaid on area code 740; 221
Competitive local exchange carriers serving large portions of the metro area also ended up serving three area codes with the same prefixes. [1] [2] 952 is bordered on the north and northeast by 763 and 612 respectively, on the east by area code 651, and by area code 507 to the south. This area is in the Central Time Zone.
Telephone dial number card of c.1948 with the local telephone number 4-5876 in Atlantic City, NJ, using the central office prefix 4, later converted to AT4 Face of a 1939 rotary telephone dial with the telephone number LA-2697, which includes the first two letters of Lakewood, New Jersey, as the central office prefix, later converted to LA6.
Telephone country codes, originally termed International Codes by the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (C.C.I.T.T.) in 1960, [1] 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 ...
A telephone prefix is the first set of digits after the country, and area codes of a telephone number. In the North American Numbering Plan countries (country code 1), it is the first three digits of a seven-digit local phone number, the second three digits of the 3-3-4 scheme. In other countries, both the prefix and the number may have ...
Location Notes Added Base 557 314 St. Louis, Missouri (communities such as, but not limited to, St. Louis, Overland, Bridgeton, Florissant, Webster Groves, Creve Coeur, Kirkwood and Sappington) Initial overlay area code plan was announced October 24, 2000. New 557 area code was announced in February 2022 and went into effect August 12, 2022.