Area Code 816 is an area code in the state of Missouri that covers the Kansas City Metropolitan Area and the city of St. Joseph to the north. A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks Missouri ( or) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee Kansas City Kansas. Items for the metro area should also go to the Kansas City Metropolitan Area page Items for Kansas City Missouri Saint Joseph (informally St Joe) is the largest city in Northwest Missouri, serving as the County seat for Buchanan County. The area code used to cover most of northwestern Missouri to the state's borders with Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, but currently, the area code only shares a border with Kansas to the west and is surrounded on the other three sides by area code 660, the area code that was created by shearing off most of the former territory covered by 816. The State of Iowa ( is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America. Kansas ( is a Midwestern state in the central region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the American " Nebraska ( is a state located on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States and Area code 660 is the new Telephone numbering plan code for Northern and Western Missouri in the North American Numbering Plan.
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History of area codes in Missouri
When the North American Numbering Plan Administration came out with its first map of area codes in 1947, Missouri was assigned just two area codes, with 816 covering the western half of the state and area code 314 covering the eastern half. The area code 314 serves the Independent city of St Louis Missouri, and most suburbs located in St However, before the implementation of area codes was made final in late 1951, the original two-code plan for Missouri was changed to three codes, as area code 417 was carved out for the southwestern portion of the state, including the cities of Branson, Joplin and Springfield. The area code 417 serves southwestern Missouri including the principal cities of Springfield, Joplin, West Plains, Lamar, and Branson is a city in Stone and Taney counties in the US state of Missouri. Joplin is a city in southern Jasper County and northern Newton County in the southwestern corner of the U Springfield is a city in Christian and Greene Counties in the U
Missouri joins the new area code trend
By late 1996, due to deregulation caused by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the proliferation of cell phones, especially in the Kansas City area, Missouri was faced with yet another area code split. Deregulation, a term which gained widespread currency in the period 1970-2000 can be seen as a process by which governments remove reduce or simplify Restrictions on Business The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was the first major overhaul of United States Telecommunications law in nearly 62 years amending the Communications Act of Just two years earlier, area code 314 had to be split, leaving the new area code 573 for the central and southeastern portions of the state, including the cities of Cape Girardeau, Columbia, Hannibal and Jefferson City, leaving 314 in the areas around St. Louis. The 573 area code covers a large area of the state of Missouri. Columbia (kəˈlʌmbiə is the fifth-largest city in the US state of Missouri and the largest city in Mid-Missouri. Hannibal is a city in Marion and Ralls counties in the US state of Missouri.
In early 1997, the Missouri Public Service Commission, which oversees telecommunications in the state, held hearings regarding a possible split of the area code. The original recommendation of the Missouri PSC was to keep 816 for the Kansas City area and assign a new area code to the rest of the calling area, as it would cause the least disruption. (1)
On June 4, 1997, the Missouri PSC announced that starting on October 12 of that year, that a period of permissive dialing would commence for those areas that were to receive the new area code 660, meaning that calls could be completed using either 660 or 816. On April 19, 1998, 660 became mandatory for all calls in the affected area. (2)
In 2000, the Missouri PSC announced plans to add Area code 975 as an overlay of the 816 area code, but soon postponed indefinitely the May 5, 2002, implementation date when the commission determined no immediate need for additional phone numbers.
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| State of Missouri area codes: 314, 417, 573, 636, 660, 816 | ||
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| North: 660 | ||
| West: 785, 913 | area code 816 | East: 660 |
| South: 660 | ||
| State of Kansas area codes: 316, 620, 785, 913 | ||
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