telephone
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area code
A telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony endpoints. Telephone numbers are the addresses of participants in a telephone network, r ...
in the
North American Numbering Plan
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New Jersey
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Hunterdon County
Hunterdon County is a county located in the western section of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the county's population was 128,947, making it the state's 18th-most populous county,Warren County, and parts of Morris County as well as some cell phones in
Monmouth
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and
Ocean
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Counties.
History
Area code 201, originally the only area code for New Jersey when the
North American Numbering Plan
The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean. This group is historically known as World Zone 1 and has the international calling ...
was created in 1947, had been the area code for all of northern and central New Jersey since 1958.
In June 1989, New Jersey Bell announced a split of numbering plan area 201 to create a new area code, 908, in North Jersey. The area code became functional in January 1990, which started a permissive dialing period for the 314 central offices during which existing telephone numbers in the service area could be dialed with 201 or 908 area codes. The permissive dialing period ended on June 8, 1991, making the split fully effective. Customers in the remaining 201 area had to prefix existing and new numbers in 908 with 1–908. At the time of the split, 1.5 million access lines were served by the new area code.
On January 1, 1997, 908 was reduced to its western portion, forming
area code 732
Area codes 732 and 848 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for parts of the U.S. state of New Jersey.
History
In the original configuration of the first nationwide telephone numbering plan of 1947, all of New J ...
The New York Times
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'', June 2, 1997. Accessed January 23, 2008. It was the penultimate area code added in the X0X format when 909 was added a year later in California.
Middlesex County is largely 908 in South Plainfield and parts of Edison (particularly Inman Avenue and north of Oak Tree Road) and Piscataway (particularly the New Market area near Plainfield). 908 and the
Delaware Valley
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856
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Year 856 ( DCCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Byzantine Empire
* March 15 – Emperor Michael III overthrows the regency of his mot ...
are the only area codes in the state that have yet to be overlaid.
Prior to October 2021, area code 908 had telephone numbers assigned for the central office code 988. In 2020, ''988'' was designated nationwide as a dialing code for the
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (formerly known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline) is a United States-based suicide prevention network of over 200+ crisis centers that provides 24/7 service via a toll-free hotline with the number 9- ...
, which created a conflict for exchanges that permit
seven-digit dialing
Seven-digit dialing is a telephone dialing procedure customary in some territories of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for dialing telephone numbers in the same numbering plan area (NPA). NANP telephone numbers consist of ten digits, of wh ...
. This area code was therefore scheduled to transition to ten-digit dialing by October 24, 2021.
See also
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Central Jersey
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Geographic area and descriptions
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908
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Year 908 ( CMVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* May 15 – The three-year-old Constantine VII, the son of Emperor Le ...
908
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Year 908 ( CMVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* May 15 – The three-year-old Constantine VII, the son of Emperor Le ...