Area codes 305 and 786 are telephone

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s in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for all of Miami, Florida,

Miami-Dade County Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida. The county had a population of 2,701,767 as of the 2020 census, making it the most populous county in Florida and the seventh-most populous county in ...

, and the part of Monroe County in the

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in the United States. The mainland portion of Monroe County is served by

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History

Area code 305 was one of the original North American area codes created in 1947 when it was intended to serve the entire state of Florida. The western part of the peninsula from the Tampa Bay area south, which was serviced mostly by GTE (now part of Frontier Communications), was separated with

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in 1953. As a result of the increase in the state's population, North Florida from the

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to Jacksonville was assigned

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with a permissive dialing period beginning July 6, 1965, and a mandatory dialing period beginning January 1, 1966. In 1988, the east coast of Florida from Palm Beach County north through Brevard County, as well as the Orlando metropolitan area, was assigned area code 407. In 1995, Broward County was split from 305 and assigned area code 954. Although this was intended to be a long-term solution, within two years the reconfigured area code 305 was already close to exhaustion due to growth in South Florida, and the increasing popularity of cell phones and pagers. In mitigation, area code 786 was installed as an overlay in 1998. The overlay numbering plan area originally comprised only Miami-Dade County; the Keys were added in 2008."NANP Area Code History: 1998"
. Retrieved December 27, 2007. The Florida Public Service Commission approved a third area code for the Miami region on February 25, 2022. Area code 645 will be implemented on August 4, 2023, before the anticipated exhaust of central office codes in 305 and 786, which is likely to occur in 2023.

In popular culture

* Recording artist Armando Pérez, better known as

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, was born and raised in Miami, and has nicknamed himself "Mr. 305." *

Enrique Iglesias Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (; (born 8 May 1975) is a Spanish singer and songwriter. He started his recording career in the mid-1990s on the Mexican indie label Fonovisa and became the bestselling Spanish-language act of the decade. By the ...

uses "@enrique305" as his account name on Twitter. * A web-based magazine in Miami is called ''305 Magazine''. * Kitchen 305 is a

Sunny Isles Beach Sunny Isles Beach (SIB, officially the City of Sunny Isles Beach) is a city located on a barrier island in northeast Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The city is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Intracoastal Waterway on ...

restaurant inside th
Newport Beachside Resort
(where MTV held its "Spring Break 2008" party).

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* {{coord missing, Miami Telecommunications-related introductions in 1947 Telecommunications-related introductions in 1998

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1947 establishments in Florida 1998 establishments in Florida

History

In popular culture

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