Area codes in the Caribbean

The Area codes in the Caribbean in the North American Numbering Plan was formerly area code 809, which was first deployed in 1958, covering much of the British West Indies in the Caribbean Basin plus Bermuda, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico until the mid-1990s. With the advent and growth of fax machines, mobile phones, computers, and pagers in the region, the entire 809 block of seven-digit numbers was almost entirely allocated. The solution was to add more area codes for each of the territories in the West Indies and Bermuda; as a result, multiple nation-states no longer are grouped solely within the 809 area code. The only country to still utilize the legacy 809 area code today is the Dominican Republic. The divested parts of the former 809 area code now have their own new area codes.

Those places now include:

By country name

• Anguilla -- 264
• Antigua and Barbuda -- 268
• The Bahamas -- 242
• Barbados -- 246
• Bermuda -- 441
• the British Virgin Islands -- 284
• the Cayman Islands -- 345
• the Commonwealth of Dominica -- 767
• the Dominican Republic -- 809, 829 and 849
• Grenada -- 473
• Jamaica -- 876
• Montserrat -- 664
• Puerto Rico -- 787 and 939
• Saint Kitts and Nevis -- 869
• Saint Lucia -- 758
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines -- 784
• Sint Maarten -- 721 Currently country code +599. Joining the NANP at 2:00 am local time (0600 UTC) on May 31, 2010.^[1]
• Trinidad and Tobago -- 868
• the Turks and Caicos Islands -- 649
• the U.S. Virgin Islands -- 340

By Area code

• 242 -- The Bahamas
• 246 -- Barbados
• 264 -- Anguilla
• 268 -- Antigua and Barbuda
• 284 -- the British Virgin Islands
• 340 -- the U.S. Virgin Islands
• 345 -- the Cayman Islands
• 441 -- Bermuda
• 473 -- Grenada
• 649 -- the Turks and Caicos Islands
• 664 -- Montserrat
• 721 -- Sint Maarten Currently country code +599. Joining the NANP at 2:00 am local time (0600 UTC) on May 31, 2010.^[1]
• 758 -- Saint Lucia
• 767 -- the Commonwealth of Dominica
• 784 -- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• 787 -- Puerto Rico
• 809 -- the Dominican Republic
• 829 -- the Dominican Republic
• 849 -- the Dominican Republic
• 868 -- Trinidad and Tobago
• 869 -- Saint Kitts and Nevis
• 876 -- Jamaica
• 939 -- Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico's and the Dominican Republic's area codes are overlay codes.

At the time of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' withdrawal from the 809 area code in the year 1999, the Dominican Republic was left as sole entity using that legacy area code.

Former 809 Area code plan

The following was the 1994-1995 (809) numbering plan. Starting in the 1980s, Puerto Rico, Bermuda and the Dominican Republic began to use prefixes from unused ranges throughout the 2xx to 9xx range. Historic (1960s-mid 1980s) ranges are shown in parentheses.

• Anguilla -- (809) + 497 + (four digits) (National Number 4972 or 4973)
• Antigua and Barbuda -- (809) + 46 + (five digits) (National Number 46)
• The Bahamas -- (809) + (seven digits) (began with 32/33/34/35/36/37)
• Barbados -- (809) + (seven digits) (began with 42 or 43)
• Bermuda -- (809) + (seven digits) (National Number 29, then changed to 7D, as 23 or 29)
• British Virgin Islands -- (809) + 49 + (five digits) (National Number 49)
• Carriacou -- (809) + (seven digits)
• the Cayman Islands -- (809) + 94 + (five digits) (National Number 94)
• the Commonwealth of Dominica -- (809) + 44 + (five digits) (National Number 44 shared with Grenada)
• the Dominican Republic (809) + (seven digits) (began with 5 or with 68)
• Grenada -- (809) + (seven digits) (National Number 44 shared with Dominica)
• Jamaica -- (809) + (seven digits) (began with 9, other than 94s)
• Montserrat -- (809) + 491 + (four digits) (National Number 491)
• Puerto Rico -- (809) + (seven digits) (began with 7 or 8)
• Saint Kitts and Nevis -- (809) + 465 + (four digits) (National Numbers 465 for St. Kitts, 469 for Nevis)
• Saint Lucia -- (809) + (seven digits) (National Number 45 shared with St Vincent)
• Saint Vincent -- (809) + 45 + (five digits) (National Number 45 shared with St. Lucia)
• Trinidad and Tobago -- (809) + (seven digits) (began with 6, other than 68)
• the U.S. Virgin Islands -- (809) + (seven digits) (began with 77)

• • Source for above info: Incumbent provider Cable and Wireless Telephone-directory from Barbados.

References

See also

• List of NANP area codes
• North American Numbering Plan
• List of country calling codes

External links

• North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA)