171:. The panhandle would have retained the 904 area code. Outcry from the public and business community in the Jacksonville region was significant since Jacksonville is the largest urban area in northern Florida, and would thus face a greater expense and burden to change phone numbers, reprogram cell phones and update printed materials than other parts of the area code. When an area code is split, normal practice calls for the old area code to be retained by the largest city in the former area code territory in order to minimize disruption. There was also opposition from
156:(FLA on the telephone keypad) and kept the Daytona Beach LATA in then-904 along with the rest of northern Florida. The reason for changing from 850 to 352 was a potential dialing conflict with the 407-850 office code and some rate centers in the Gainesville LATA with 7-digit local calling into the 407 area code. Political pressure from the tourism industry in Daytona Beach resulted in that area being kept in the then-904 area code.
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all-services overlay as the preferred relief method. NANPA subsequently filed a request with the
Florida Public Service Commission to approve a new area code overlaying 850. The Florida Public Service Commission approved the industry's all-services overlay recommendation on November 5, 2019. The new area code, 448, was officially assigned to overlay 850.
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Area code 850 exhausted its available supply of central office codes in May 2021. Based on previous exhaust forecasts, NANPA began relief planning to provide additional numbering capacity in the 850 region. An initial planning meeting was held on May 16, 2019, where industry members recommended an
116:. Continued demand put new pressure on the numbering resources, and within a year, further relief action was in the planning stage. The result was that the far western part of the panhandle (south of the Alabama state line) became a new numbering plan area with area code 850.
179:. These two agencies objected because the split would have been unbalanced by creating a new code just for Daytona Beach. The Florida PSC changed course and adopted the plan that was ultimately implemented with the panhandle, including
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became mandatory on May 22, 2021. The in-service date, when first central office code assignment can become effective, is June 22, 2021. The first central office code assignment within the 448 area code occurred on May 14, 2021.
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When the North
American Numbering Plan (NANP) was created by
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Florida was assigned the
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List of exchanges from CIDLookup.com, 850 Area Code
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581:"NewsLink - Florida Public Service Commission"
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102:Jacksonville
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66:overlay plan
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800:678/470/943
635:305/786/645
454:Wewahitchka
443:Tallahassee
403:Panama City
353:Mary Esther
318:Gulf Breeze
243:Campbellton
228:Blountstown
181:Tallahassee
150:Gainesville
62:Panama City
58:Tallahassee
823:Categories
548:2019-05-02
477:References
449:Valparaiso
378:Mossy Head
373:Monticello
338:Lynn Haven
313:Greenville
308:Graceville
268:Cottondale
253:Cantonment
248:Carrabelle
42:area codes
433:Southport
428:Sopchoppy
408:Pensacola
388:Niceville
293:Eastpoint
278:Crestview
98:panhandle
96:from the
54:Pensacola
501:July 12,
460:See also
348:Marianna
303:Freeport
238:Callaway
175:and the
78:AT&T
48:for the
804:706/762
784:Georgia
773:256/938
765:205/659
761:Alabama
687:954/754
679:904/324
671:850/448
667:813/656
655:561/728
651:407/689
627:Florida
398:Panacea
383:Navarre
343:Madison
263:Chipley
258:Century
233:Bristol
223:Bonifay
189:overlay
72:History
44:in the
423:Quincy
363:Milton
323:Havana
288:Destin
748:South
696:North
598:(PDF)
538:(PDF)
520:(PDF)
413:Perry
173:NANPA
134:LATAs
731:East
717:West
503:2020
393:Pace
161:LATA
148:and
142:LATA
60:and
812:912
808:770
796:478
792:404
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777:334
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739:386
735:352
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