The North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) has introduced a brand new space code, 235, will likely be becoming a member of the present 573 space code in Central Missouri.
Officers with the Missouri Public Service Fee stated this may be sure that all residential and enterprise clients have a adequate provide of phone numbers to serve this space of the state.
In response to a PSC information launch, rising demand for residential and enterprise phone numbers created the necessity to add a brand new space code to the present 573 space code area. Phone clients within the present 573 space code who request new service or an extra phone line could also be assigned a phone quantity with the brand new space code when it turns into accessible.
“The 573 space code is just not going away, and clients who’ve a phone quantity with the 573 space code won’t lose or have to alter their phone quantity,” stated Ryan Silvey, Missouri Public Service Fee chairman. “An overlay is a extra environment friendly and fewer disruptive approach to alleviate the exhaustion of obtainable phone numbers by merely assigning the brand new space code to new numbers.”
In February, NANPA notified the PSC of the necessity for phone quantity reduction within the 573 space code as a result of the accessible provide of phone numbers could be exhausted throughout the first quarter of 2025.
On April 21, the PSC issued an order directing NANPA to proceed with an overlay plan. This can require 10-digit dialing on all native calls.
The value of a name, protection space, or different charges and providers won’t change as a result of overlay.
Three-digit abbreviated dialing — resembling 911, in addition to 211, 311, 411, 511, 611, 711, or 811 — will proceed to work and never be affected.
So far as when phone numbers with the brand new 235 space code will change into accessible continues to be to be decided however clients ought to establish their phone quantity as a 10-digit quantity (three-digit space code plus seven-digit phone quantity), and embody the world code when giving the quantity to others.
The 573 space code serves communities resembling Jefferson Metropolis, Columbia, Rolla, Cape Girardeau, Poplar Bluff, Sikeston, Mexico, Hannibal, Camdenton, Waynesville, Farmington and Caruthersville.