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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.
Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Country calling codes, country dial-in codes, international subscriber dialing (ISD) codes, or most commonly, telephone country codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.
British Virgin Islands: Caribbean 1-284: 011 1 Canada: North 1 011 1 Several NANP codes; see Telephone numbers in Canada. Caribbean Netherlands: Caribbean 599-3, 4, or 7: 00 Cayman Islands: Caribbean 1-345: 011 1 Chile: South 56: 00 Colombia: South 57: 00 0 Trunk followed by 1 or 3 digit carrier code Costa Rica: Central 506: 00 Cuba: Caribbean ...
In 2006, the British Virgin Islands government undertook a deregulation of the telephone industry. [1] Prior to 2006, in common with many other Caribbean countries, Cable & Wireless (Caribbean) had a statutory monopoly [2] on telephone and other electronic communications services. However, in the 1990s, a local company called CCT Boatphone ...
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 ...
U.S. Virgin Islands United States (Includes territories and possessions) United States Independent State in the World Washington, DC US VI 78 1990-01-01 The U.S. took possession of the islands on March 31, 1917 and the territory was renamed the Virgin Islands of the United States 1 5 501 U.S. Pacific Trust Territories and Possessions
Area code 284 is the telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the British Virgin Islands (BVI). The numbering plan area (NPA) was created in a split of area code 809 on 1 October 1997, when a permissive dialing period existed until 30 September 1998. Within the British Virgin Islands, the seven digits are dialed for ...
For more information, see Area codes in the Caribbean. Pages in category "Area codes in the Caribbean" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.