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727 727 Pinellas County, Florida Pasco County, Florida 1998 establishments in Florida {{Florida-geo-stub
Area code 727 covers Pinellas County
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, Florida
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(including St. Petersburg
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, Clearwater, and Pinellas Park, among many other municipalities, but excluding the majority of Oldsmar), and the western third of Pasco County (including Port Richey, New Port Richey
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History
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, and Holiday
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). For 43 years, the 13 counties around Tampa Bay
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, including cities such as Sarasota
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, Ellenton, and Port Charlotte were in area code 813
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. In 1998, Pinellas County and the western part of Pasco County were split into area code 727.
727 was going to be introduced in an overlay plan
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, to overlay 813. At the time, overlays were a new concept and since overlays result in mixing area codes within the same area (issuing the new code to new numbers) requiring 10-digit dialing, they were often met with public resistance. GTE
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(now part of Frontier Communications
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), the dominant carrier in most of the Tampa Bay Area
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, switched the proposal to a split plan.
The split largely followed county lines, with the notable exception of Oldsmar, most of which stayed in 813. Oldsmar's trunk is wired into the Tampa line, and it would have been too expensive for GTE to rewire it.
See also
*List of Florida area codes
This is a list of area codes in the U.S. state of Florida.
When the original North American area codes were introduced for a nationwide telephone numbering plan in 1947, the entire state was a single numbering plan area (NPA) with area code 305. ...
*List of NANP area codes
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*North American Numbering Plan
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References
Florida's Area Code History
External links
727 727 Pinellas County, Florida Pasco County, Florida 1998 establishments in Florida {{Florida-geo-stub