Editing Area codes 561 and 728

{{Short description|Area codes in Palm Beach County, Florida}}
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'''Area codes 561 and 728''' are telephone [[area code]]s in the [[North American Numbering Plan]] (NANP) for [[Palm Beach County, Florida|Palm Beach County]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Florida]]. 561 was created on May 13, 1996, in a split of [[area code 407]]. The numbering plan area (NPA) comprises nearly every major city in the county, the largest of which being [[West Palm Beach, Florida|West Palm Beach]], [[Boca Raton, Florida|Boca Raton]], [[Wellington, Florida|Wellington]], [[Boynton Beach, Florida|Boynton Beach]], [[Jupiter, Florida|Jupiter]], [[Delray Beach, Florida|Delray Beach]], and [[Belle Glade, Florida|Belle Glade]]. On March 10, 2023, area code 728 was added to the same numbering plan area to form an all-services distributed [[overlay plan|overlay]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cbs12.com/news/local/new-area-code-728-coming-to-palm-beach-county |title = New area code '728' coming to Palm Beach County {{!}} WPEC|date=2022-01-08|access-date=2023-03-10}}</ref>

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/[[Treasure Coast]] region and the proliferation of cell phones. In mitigation, the northern part of 561, the Treasure Coast, was split off with [[area code 772]] 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.<ref>{{Cite web
|url=https://www.nationalnanpa.com/planning_letters/PL-582.pdf
|title=Planning Letter PL_582: NPA 728 and 561 All-Services Overlay (Florida)
|publisher=NANPA
|date=2022-02-18
|access-date=2023-03-10
}}</ref>

A permissive dialing period was not necessary for this overlay, because area code 561 already had a [[ten-digit dialing]] requirement, because prior to October 2021, it had telephone numbers assigned for the [[central office code]] 988. In 2020, ''988'' was designated nationwide as a dialing code for the [[National Suicide Prevention Lifeline]], which created a conflict for exchanges that permit [[seven-digit dialing]]. This area code transitioned to ten-digit dialing by October 24, 2021.<ref name="pl556">{{cite web|url=https://nationalnanpa.com/pdf/PL_556.pdf|date=2021-01-06|publisher=NANPA|title=Planning Letter PL-556: Transition to 10-digit dialing (for 988 as 3-digit access to National Suicide Prevention Hotline)|access-date=2023-03-10}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of Florida area codes]]
*[[List of NANP area codes]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.sprint.com/areacodes/florida/history.html  Florida's Area Code History]

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{{Area code box | State = FL
 | This = 561/728
 | N = [[area code 772|772]]
 | W = [[area code 863|863]], [[area code 239|239]]
 | E = [[area code 242|242]], [[Atlantic Ocean]]
 | S = [[area codes 954 and 754|954/754]]
|S1=Bahamas}}

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[[Category:Area codes in the United States|561]]
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