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The largest telephone numbering plan in North American is the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), serving 25 regions or countries. Other countries maintain an autonomous numbering plan with distinct country codes within the international E.164 specifications by the International Telecommunication Union.
Area codes are also assigned for non-geographic purposes. The rules for numbering NPAs do not permit the digits 0 and 1 in the leading position. [1] Area codes with two identical trailing digits are easily recognizable codes (ERC). NPAs with 9 in the second position are reserved for future format expansion.
Numbering plan areas in California (blue) and border states. This map is clickable; click on any region shown to visit the page for those area codes. In 1947, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) devised the first nationwide telephone numbering plan and assigned the original North American area codes.
Map of LATAs in the US. Local access and transport area (LATA) is a term used in U.S. telecommunications regulation.It represents a geographical area of the United States under the terms of the Modification of Final Judgment (MFJ) entered by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Civil Action number 82-0192 or any other geographic area designated as a LATA in the ...
To find out the 25 poorest and richest area codes, GOBankingRates used the 2015 Census Community Survey, the most recent data available, to rank cities across the nation in order of mean household ...
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Area code 301 was the first area code for all of Maryland, from 1947, when the area code system was created, until 1991, when everything from Baltimore eastward split off as area code 410. In 1997, area code 240 was added as an overlay area code for the 301 territory. On June 14, 2023, a third overlay code, 227, was added to provide more ...
Area codes were assigned based on the volume of traffic and the speed of dialing the code on a rotary electromechanical dial phone, so that the higher the volume of traffic, the less time it took to dial the area code. Area code 212 was the quickest, followed by 213 (Los Angeles) and 312 (Chicago), etc., all the way to 919 (North Carolina).