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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.
British Virgin Islands Caribbean, Bahamas, and Bermuda British Virgin Islands Dependency and Area of Special Sovereignty Road Town United Kingdom VG 1950-01-01 1 283 28301 U.S. Virgin Islands Caribbean, Bahamas, and Bermuda Virgin Islands Dependency and Area of Special Sovereignty Charlotte Amalie United States VI 1950-01-01 1989-12-31 Retired.
Country Code: +1284 International Call Prefix: 011 (outside NANP) Calls from the British Virgin Islands to the US, Canada, and other NANP Caribbean nations, are dialled as 1 + NANP area code + 7-digit number. Calls from the British Virgin Islands to non-NANP countries are dialled as 011 + country code + phone number with local area code.
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 ...
Area code 340 is the local telephone area code of the U.S. Virgin Islands. The 340 area code was created during a split from the original 809 area code, which began permissive dialing on 1 June 1997 and ended 30 June 1998. When in the U.S. Virgin Islands, one can dial the seven digits without the area code.
Telephones - main lines in use: 74,200 (2008) The traditional wire line provider in the United States Virgin Islands is Viya. Viya is a subsidiary of ATN International [1] Telephones - mobile cellular: 80,300 (2005) The islands are served by Liberty Communications, Viya, Claro Puerto Rico, and T-Mobile US. Telephone system:
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.