Area codes 305, 786, and 645 are telephone

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

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, and the part of

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in the

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

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History

In 1947, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) announced the first nationwide telephone numbering plan and divided the United States and Canada into 86 numbering plan areas and assigned the original North American area codes, a unique code for each area, to speed the connection times for

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. The state of Florida was a single numbering plan area with area code 305. In 1953, with the development of direct distance dialing, the western part of the peninsula from the Tampa Bay area south, which was serviced mostly by General Telephone (GTE), was designated as a separate numbering plan area with

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. 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 mandatory dialing beginning January 1, 1966. On April 16, 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. On September 11, 1995, Broward County was split from 305 and assigned area code 954. It was predicted that the new area code would delay but not prevent phone numbers in the 305 area code from being completely used up in a few years.Whitefield, Mimi; Fields, Gregg (September 3, 1995).
A New Ring
. ''The Miami Herard''. p. 1B, 2B. Within two years, the reconfigured area code 305 was close to exhaustion due to growth in Dade County from the increasing popularity of cell phones and pagers. In mitigation, area code 786 was installed as an overlay on March 1, 1998.Miami-Dade County adds a second area code: 786
. ''Bell South''. Boca Raton News (Boca Raton, Florida). April 26, 1998. p. 11. The overlay numbering plan area originally comprised only

, although it was clear the remainder of area code 305 would eventually be overlaid with area code 786.

was added to area code 786 on September 1, 2001."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 was activated on August 4, 2023, before the anticipated exhaust of central office codes in 305 and 786, which was 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." * Spanish singer

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 ...

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

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

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In popular culture

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