Area code 352 is a NANPA telephone dialing area around

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. It was split from

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in 1995. It includes all of

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, Gilchrist, Levy, Marion,

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(with the exception of

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), and Hernando counties, and all but the extreme north of Alachua County. It also includes the southern and eastern tips of Bradford County, the west edge of northern

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County, the southwestern part of

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, the northeast and north central parts of Pasco county, and the

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and Tennile communities in southern

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County. Prior to October 2021, area code 352 had telephone numbers assigned for the

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988. In 2020, ''988'' was designated nationwide as a dialing code for the

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, 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 ...

. This area code was therefore scheduled to transition to

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 telep ...

by October 24, 2021.

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Florida PSC map of 352
Telecommunications-related introductions in 1996 Alachua County, Florida

352 Year 352 ( CCCLII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Decentius and Paulus (or, less frequently, year 1105 ''Ab urbe c ...

1996 establishments in Florida {{Florida-geo-stub

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