Area codes 330 and 234 are telephone

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s in the

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(NANP) for a part of

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. The numbering plan area (NPA) includes the cities of

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Canton Canton may refer to: Administrative division terminology * Canton (administrative division), territorial/administrative division in some countries, notably Switzerland * Township (Canada), known as ''canton'' in Canadian French Arts and ente ...

, Youngstown, and Warren. Area code 330 was established on March 9, 1996 in an area code split of

area code 216 Area code 216 is the telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the city of Cleveland and most of its inner-ring suburbs in Cuyahoga County of the U.S. state of Ohio. The area code is one of the original North American a ...

. It was Ohio's first new area code since the creation of NANP in 1947. Area code 234, originally planned as the relief code for the

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area, was established on October 30, 2000, to form an

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for the service area. Ten-digit dialing has been mandatory since October 1, 2000.

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Telecommunications-related introductions in 1996 Telecommunications-related introductions in 2000

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