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Area codes 561 and 728

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in 2002. This service configuration in the region was sufficient for twenty-one years until on January 4, 2022, the Florida Public Service Commission decided and approved an all-services overlay for the NPA, with an effective in-service date of March 10, 2023.
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Within only five years of creation, NPA 561 was experiencing rapid exhaustion of central office codes from growth of service demands in the Palm Beaches/
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region and the proliferation of cell phones. In mitigation, the northern part of 561, the Treasure Coast, was split off with
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A permissive dialing period was not necessary for this overlay, because area code 561 already had a
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requirement, because prior to October 2021, it had telephone numbers assigned for the
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was designated nationwide as a dialing code for the
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Index

Area code 561

area codes
North American Numbering Plan
Palm Beach County
U.S. state
Florida
area code 407
West Palm Beach
Boca Raton
Wellington
Boynton Beach
Jupiter
Delray Beach
Belle Glade
overlay
Treasure Coast
area code 772
ten-digit dialing
central office code
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
seven-digit dialing
List of Florida area codes
List of NANP area codes
"New area code '728' coming to Palm Beach County | WPEC"
"Planning Letter PL_582: NPA 728 and 561 All-Services Overlay (Florida)"
"Planning Letter PL-556: Transition to 10-digit dialing (for 988 as 3-digit access to National Suicide Prevention Hotline)"
Florida's Area Code History
NANPA area code map of Florida
Florida

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