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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.
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. Number Format: nxx-xxxx Telephones – main lines in use: 11,700 (2002 ...
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 ...
Aruba and Sint Maarten, also former parts of the Netherlands Antilles, discontinued using the code in 1986 and 2011 respectively. Aruba now uses country code 297, and Sint Maarten uses the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) country code 1 with area code 721. [3] The International call prefix is 00.
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:
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
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.