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Area codes 508 and 774 are North American Numbering Plan (NANP) telephone area codes for the U.S. state of Massachusetts. This service area currently includes south-central and most of southeastern Massachusetts (LATA code 128). It includes Worcester, Outer south & southwest Greater Boston (such as the MetroWest region), as well as Fall River, New Bedford, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket.
Area code 508 was created on July 16, 1988, as a split from area code 617.[1] Prior to this split, 617 served the entire eastern two-thirds of Massachusetts from roughly the western end of Worcester County to Boston, The Cape and Islands, & The South Coast, while area code 413 (then as now) served all points west of the original 617 boundary. Permissive dialing of 617 and 508 continued until January 1, 1989.
On September 1, 1997, area code 508 was split, with area code 978 being assigned to the northern part of that service area. Area code 774 is an overlay area code that was added to share the 508 service area, beginning on May 2, 2001 and continuing to the present day. Since then, 10 digit local dialing is mandatory[citation needed].
Some mobile phone numbers from the 1990s assigned to communities in the former northern half on 508 (now the 978 area code) kept the 508 area code just on those mobile lines after it split.
Future[edit]
As of 2018, the 508/774 NPA is projected to be exhausted by 2045.[2]
Regions and major cities[edit]
Area codes 508 and 774 include the following regions
Area codes 508 and 774 include the following major cities
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'NPA: 508'. NANP Administration System. North American Numbering Plan Administration. Retrieved 25 August 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^2018 October NANPA Exhaust Projections
External links[edit]
| Massachusetts area codes: 339/781, 351/978, 413, 508/774, 617/857 | ||
|---|---|---|
| North: 978/351 | ||
| West: 413 | area code 508/774 | East: 781/339, Atlantic Ocean |
| South: 860, 401 | ||
| Connecticut area codes: 203/475, 860/959 | ||
| Rhode Island area codes: 401 | ||
508 Compliance
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
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| 508 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 508 DVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1261 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5258 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 429–430 |
| Bengali calendar | −85 |
| Berber calendar | 1458 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1052 |
| Burmese calendar | −130 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6016–6017 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3204 or 3144 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3205 or 3145 |
| Coptic calendar | 224–225 |
| Discordian calendar | 1674 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 500–501 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4268–4269 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 564–565 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 429–430 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3608–3609 |
| Holocene calendar | 10508 |
| Iranian calendar | 114 BP – 113 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 118 BH – 117 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 394–395 |
| Julian calendar | 508 DVIII |
| Korean calendar | 2841 |
| Minguo calendar | 1404 before ROC 民前1404年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −960 |
| Seleucid era | 819/820 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1050–1051 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 634 or 253 or −519 — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 635 or 254 or −518 |
Year 508 (DVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Venantius and Celer (or, less frequently, year 1261 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 508 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Dominicalendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
508 Area Code
Events[edit]
By place[edit]
Byzantine Empire[edit]
- Emperor Anastasius I formally recognizes Clovis I of the Salian Franks as ruler of Gaul. He sends a Byzantine fleet of 100 warships to raid the coasts of Italy.[1]
Britannia[edit]
- Battle of Netley: King Cerdic of Wessex moves with an Anglo-Saxon army inland and defeats the British king, Nudd-Lludd (according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle).[2]
- Winter – All the rivers in England are frozen for more than two months.[3]
Europe[edit]
- King Clovis I fails in an effort to take the walled city of Carcassonne (Southern Gaul). He establishes Paris (Lutetia) as his capital and gets baptized, making Roman Catholicism the official religion of the Kingdom of the Franks.
- King Theodoric the Great sends an Ostrogoth army, led by his sword-bearer Theudis, and drives the Franks out of Provence and recovers Septimania (Languedoc) from the Visigoths.
Births[edit]
- September 16 – Yuan Di, emperor of the Liang dynasty (d. 555)
- Xiao Ji, prince of the Liang dynasty (d. 553)
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Deaths[edit]
- Geraint, king of Dumnonia (approximate date)
- Natanleod, king of Wales
- Yuan Xie, prince of the Northern Wei Dynasty
- Yujiulü Futu, ruler (khan) of the Rouran (Mongolia)
References[edit]
508 Compliance Requirements
- ^Pryor & Jeffreys 2006, p. 13
- ^'Hampshire County Council'. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
- ^Stratton, J.M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN0-212-97022-4.
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