Area codes 876 and 658
Area codes 876 and 658 are telephone
Having telephone service to the United States as early as 1936, it was not until 1962 that Jamaica had a high capacity link for dial service to the US network, which was operated as part of the NANP numbering plan area
The telephone country code for reaching telephone numbers in the country is 1. From other NANP member regions, the dialing pattern is 1-658/876 NXX-XXXX, where 1 is the NANP long-distance trunk prefix.
History
In 1936, AT&T installed the first telephone service extensions to Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and El Salvador in the Caribbean.[2]
In 1958, Bermuda and the
It was not until 1962 that a large capacity underseas telephone cable was installed between Jamaica and the United States for dial service.[2] For over three decades, Jamaica participated in the North American numbering system with a set of three-digit central office codes that had the digit 9 in the leading position, that where routed with area code 809.
In 1996, the Jamaican government requested and were granted by Bellcore, the NANP administration, the assignment of a new and separate area code for the country. Area code 876 was created on 1 May 1997, by a split of NPA 809.[1] In the process area code 809 was removed from the country and existing central office codes were reassigned with the new area code. A permissive dialing period during which central office codes could be reached with either area code began on 1 May 1997 and ended 31 July 1998,[3] after being extended from 1 November 1997.
On 15 September 2016, the Office of Utilities Regulation had approved an
The country’s has been served by two mobile operators –
Fraud
The 876 area code was linked to a form of
The telephone fraud in Jamaica is a primary topic of the episode "Jamaican Lottery Scam" of the television series American Greed.
See also
References
- ^ a b Deak, J. N. (1996-10-09). "PL-NANP-014: NANP - Introduction of New 876 (Jamaica) Numbering Plan Area (NPA)" (scanned image as PDF). NANPA: North American Numbering Plan Administrator. NANPA. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
- ^ a b AT&T (1974), Events in Telephone History, AT&T Public Relations Department (New York)
- ^ "PL-525: NPA 658 to Overlay NPA 876 (Jamaica) – Permissive Dialing Date Change [supersedes PL-510]" (PDF). NANPA: North American Numbering Plan Administrator. NANPA. 2018-11-19. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
- ^ "NPA 658 to Overlay NPA 876 (Jamaica)" (PDF). nationalnanpa.com. August 25, 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
- ^ "OUR assigns Central Office Code under 658 Area Code". Jamaica Observer. 2023-05-17.
- ^ "BBB Warns of One Ring Cell Phone Scam". Archived from the original on 2014-02-19. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
External links
- Quick on lotto scam bill, slow on crime cure - Jamaica Gleaner
- North American Numbering Plan Administrator
North: +53 in Cuba
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West: 345 | Area code 876, 658 | East: +509 in Haiti
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Cayman Islands area codes: 345 |
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