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Area code 860 was created on August 28, 1995, as a numbering plan area split from area code 203, in which the latter was reduced to Fairfield County (except for Sherman) and New Haven County, plus part of Litchfield County (Bethlehem, Woodbury, and a small part of Roxbury). Dialing of area code 860 became mandatory on October 4, 1996.
2 Area codes by country, state, province, and regions. ... the area's biggest city by population; 860: Northern and eastern Connecticut (Hartford, Bristol, ...
860: Northern and southeastern Connecticut (split from 203 in August 1995) 959: Overlay of 860 (August 2014) In 1999, Connecticut announced that two additional codes may be implemented when needed: 475, overlaying 203; and 959, overlaying 860. In March 2009, NANPA announced area code 475 to overlay 203 in December 2009.
Some geographic area codes are similar to the toll-free codes, e.g., 801, 818, 860. Toll-free numbers are also sometimes confused with 900-numbers, for which the telephone company bills the callers at rates far in excess of long-distance service rates for services such as recorded information or live chat.
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In addition to being the sole area code in the Space Coast region around the Kennedy Space Center, this is the only partial overlay area code in North America 323: 213: Central Los Angeles, incl. Downtown L.A. and Hollywood: 326: 937: Southwest Ohio: 331: 630: Western suburbs of Chicago: 332, 646 , 917: 212
Initially, area codes with the middle digit 0 were assigned to numbering plan areas that comprised an entire state or province, while jurisdictions with multiple numbering plan areas received area codes having 1 as the second digit. As network growth could not be predicted accurately over more than a few years, this pattern was abandoned by ...
When dialing a telephone number, the area code may have to be preceded by a trunk prefix or national access code for domestic calls, and for international calls by the international access code and country code. Area codes are often quoted by including the national access code. For example, a number in London may be listed as 020 7946 0321.