USA telephone area code map - North Carolina

Area codes 910 and 472 are

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s serving southeastern

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, including the cities of Wilmington,

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, Lumberton and Fayetteville. Area code 910 was established in 1993 as a split from

area code 919 Area codes 919 and 984 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for all or parts of eleven counties in the east-central area of the U.S. state of North Carolina. They service the cities of Raleigh, Durham, Cary, and ...

, and was the state's first new area code in 39 years. Originally, it covered a fan-shaped region in the southeastern and north-central portions of the state, including the

Piedmont Triad The Piedmont Triad (or simply the Triad) is a metropolitan region in the north-central part of the U.S. state of North Carolina anchored by three cities: Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point. This close group of cities lies in the Piedmon ...

, the Sandhills, and the southeastern coast. The two parts were only connected by a tendril in the Sandhills. Within only three years, 910 was already on the brink of exhaustion due to rapid growth in the Triad, Wilmington and Fayetteville, as well as the proliferation of cell phones and pagers. On December 15, 1997,

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was created for the Triad and most of the old 910 territory's western portion. Normally, when an area code is split, the more populated portion keeps the old area code–in this case, the Triad. However, it was decided to let the southeastern portion of the state keep 910. Area code 910 has telephone numbers assigned for the

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988. ''988'' has been designated nationwide as a dialing code for the

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, which creates a conflict for exchanges that permit

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. This area code was therefore required to transition to

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, mandatory after October 24, 2021. With a forecast that numbers would run out by 2023, area code 472 was approved for use beginning on October 7, 2022 as an

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. No dialing transition was required as ten-digit dialing was already in place at the time.

Prior usage for TWX

Area code 910 was originally designated for one of three U.S. regional numbering plan areas for the former

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TWX (

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) network, sold to

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in 1969 and renamed as Telex II. It covered every US point west of the

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. The original TWX area codes were

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in the U.S. and 610 in Canada. The addition of 710 in the Northeast (New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, DC, Virginia, and West Virginia); 810 in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and most of the South (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Kentucky); and 910 west of the Mississippi allowed each major city one or more local exchange prefixes in the special numbering plan area.AT&T Long Lines (1975), ''Traffic Routing Guide''
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modems and mechanical

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writers. The special US TWX area codes (510, 710, 810, 910) were decommissioned in 1981; Canada moved its remaining 610-numbers to

area code 600 Area code 600 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for non-geographic use in Canada of specialized telecommunication services such as telex applications, caller-pays cellular, ISDN, and mobile satellite communication ser ...

in 1992.

References

External links

List of exchanges from AreaCodeDownload.com, 910 Area Code
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Telecommunications-related introductions in 1993

Prior usage for TWX

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