Area code 664 is a telephone

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in the

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(NANP) for

Montserrat Montserrat ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, wit ...

, a British Overseas Territory in the

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. The digits of the area code translate to ''MNI'' in the alphanumeric mapping on telephone dials. The area code was created in a split of

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, which had been assigned in the 1960s to all of the Caribbean islands. All existing central office codes and telephone numbers were carried from area code 809 to 664, as established. A permissive dialing period was conducted from 1 July 1996 to 1 June 1997 during which use of either area code was permitted for calls into the country terminating in previously established central offices. Destinations with newly issued central office codes required the new area code. A local call within Montserrat is dialed with seven digits. A call from another North American Numbering Plan country (such as the

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) requires dialing the long-distance access code (''1''), the NPA code, and the seven-digit

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. At one time the small island of Montserrat used only four-digit telephone numbers internally, as the first three digits after the former 809 area code were the same for everyone (491). As of May 2011, Montserrat has seven-digit numbers beginning with 236, 349, 410, 411, 412, 413, 415, 491, 492, 493, 494, 495, 496, 664, and 724.

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{{areacode-stub 664 Communications in Montserrat

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