Area codes 715 and 534 are telephone

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s in the

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(NANP) for the

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Wisconsin Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michig ...

. The numbering plan area (NPA) comprises most of the northern part of the state. 715 was one of the original North American area codes created in 1947, while 534 was added in 2010 as an additional code for the same numbering plan area to form an

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History

In October 1947, the

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(AT&T) published the first nationwide

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in coordination with independent telephone operators. North America was mapped into eighty-six numbering plan areas (NPAs) and each assigned a unique three-digit area code. Wisconsin was divided into two NPAs. Its northern part received area code 715, while the rest was assigned area code 414. As each NPA could initially only host about 500 central offices with 10,000 lines each, NPAs would be split over time to avoid code exhaustion or improve routing efficiency. In 1955, the southern Wisconsin NPA was split in half, with the western portion being assigned the area code 608. The southern Wisconsin NPA was split in 1997 and 1999 to accommodate the growth in demand from proliferation of pagers, fax machines, and cell phones. Due to northern Wisconsin's low population density, 715 was for a long time one of the few original area codes never to have been split or overlaid. But by 2010, the proliferation of cellphones and pagers had almost exhausted 715's telephone numbers. Central office code relief was implemented by adding area code 534 to form an

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Service area

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Cities, towns and villages

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, Altoona,

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, Couderay, Crandon,

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, Fall Creek,

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, Fifield,

, Foxboro, Frederic,

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