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Ten-digit dialing. Ten-digit dialing is a telephone dialing procedure in the countries and territories that are members of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). It is the practice of including the area code of a telephone number when dialing to initiate a telephone call. When necessary, the ten-digit number may be prefixed with the trunk ...
In the example of Arequipa, the code of 95 has to be entered before the 9, so the new numeration is 959 XXX XXX. The other codes are 94 for La Libertad (Trujillo), 96 for Piura and 97 for Lambayeque (Chiclayo). In the other 19 rural departments, the 9 is followed by the department's 2-digit area code then the 6-digit subscriber number.
The expansion of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is the anticipated requirement for providing more telephone numbers to accommodate future needs beyond the pool of ten-digit telephone numbers. Ten-digit telephone numbers have been in use in the United States and Canada in long-distance telephone service since the 1950s.
5. Enter your area code. 6. Click Next. 7. Choose whether to dial 1 and/or 1 + Area Code. Note: Many areas now require 10 digit dialing, and in some cases 1 + Area Code may be required as well. Contact your local telephone company for more information.
Feb. 25—ROCKINGHAM — Some Richmond County residents have noticed that they are being required to enter the 910 area code to make a phone call, prompting concern that an impending change to the ...
Oct. 24—Anyone needing a visual aid for why it's necessary to tack on a three-digit area code for calls in Eastern Washington on Sunday would do well to take a trip to the Spokane Valley ...
Starting Sunday people in Wisconsin will have to dial local numbers using 10 digits: the area code and the seven-digit phone number.
All-number calling. All-number calling ( ANC) is a telephone numbering plan that was introduced into the North American Numbering Plan by the Bell System in the United States starting in 1958 [1] to replace the previous system of using a telephone exchange name as the first part of a telephone number. [2] The plan prescribed the format of a ...