
Area codes 801 and 385 are telephone
area code
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s in the
North American Numbering Plan
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(NANP) serving
Salt Lake City
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and the four surrounding counties of the
Wasatch Front
The Wasatch Front is a major metropolitan region in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Utah. It consists of a chain of contiguous cities and towns stretched along the Wasatch Range from Santaquin in the south to Pleasant View in the n ...
in north-central
Utah
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. The numbering plan area comprises
Davis,
Morgan
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,
Salt Lake
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,
Utah
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, and
Weber counties. Other major towns and cities within the area are
Alta,
American Fork,
Bountiful,
Layton,
Lehi,
Murray,
Ogden,
Orem
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Orem is one of the principal cities of the Provo-Orem, Utah Me ...
,
Provo,
Sandy
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,
South Jordan
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,
Spanish Fork,
Taylorsville,
West Jordan, and
West Valley City. This numbering plan area is located in the
Mountain Time Zone
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. Area code 801 is one of the
original North American area codes
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created in 1947. Area code 385 was assigned to the same numbering plan area in 2008, creating an
overlay complex
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.
History
The state of Utah was a single numbering plan area, assigned area code 801, when the
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
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(AT&T) devised the first nationwide
telephone numbering plan
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for
Operator Toll Dialing
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in 1947.
On September 21, 1997, the numbering plan area was geographically reduced to the Wasatch Front, while the rest of Utah was assigned
area code 435
Area code 435 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for most of the U.S. state of Utah. Area code 435 was created in 1997 in a split of area code 801.
The numbering plan area excludes the region of the Wasatch F ...
. This resulted in 801 being an
enclave
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area code and also became one of the six doughnut area codes in the NANP. This split was originally intended to be a long-term solution. However, the Wasatch Front is not only home to most of Utah's landlines, but also the great majority of its pagers, cell phones and fax machines. As a result, 801 was close to exhaustion once again within only two years.
In 2000, the
Public Service Commission of Utah
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See also
* Public Utilities Commission
External links
Utah Division of Public Utilities Website
Utah
State agencies o ...
(PSC) approved a split for 801 in 2001, in which Salt Lake County would have retained the 801 area code and the rest of the Wasatch Front would have been assigned area code 385. Conservation measures, such as
number pooling
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, postponed the split for more than seven years.
[Order Selecting Area Code Overlay, and Reversing April 13, 2000 Order Selecting Area Code Split](_blank)
, Public Service Commission of Utah, July 12, 2007. Accessed July 13, 2007.
In July 2007, the PSC announced that the capacity created by the conservation measures would be exhausted by June 2008, finally necessitating the implementation of area code 385. The same announcement stated that 385 would be implemented as an overlay rather than a split, so that the Wasatch Front would be served by both area codes. Everyone who already had an 801 number could keep it. 385 entered service on June 1, 2008, with a year-long permissive dialing period beginning during which seven and
ten-digit calls could be completed. Ten-digit dialing became mandatory along the Wasatch Front on June 1, 2009.
385 area code = 10-digit dialing
Utah Public Service Commission Accessed July 9, 2008. As new wireless devices have become prominent over new landline adoption, outside abandoned 801 numbers being placed back into the pool, most new numbers have been assigned the 385 area code.
See also
* List of Utah area codes
*List of North American Numbering Plan area codes
The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) divides the territories of its members into geographic numbering plan areas (NPAs). Each NPA is identified by one or more numbering plan area codes (''NPA codes'', or ''area code
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References
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Year 801 ( DCCCI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 801st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 801st year of the 1st millennium, the 1st year of the 9th century, and the 2nd ...
Telecommunications-related introductions in 1947
Telecommunications-related introductions in 2009