833 Area Code

 833 area code is the toll free number of United States, like 844, 855, 877, 876, 888 and 800. These toll free numbers are assigned by North American Numbering Plan (NANP).

NORTH AMERICAN NUMBERING PLAN

North American Numbering Plan, or commonly called “NANP”, is a numbering plan (telephone) for country dial-in codes, provides its services in twenty five different regions in twenty countries including Canada, United States and its territories, and also the Caribbean countries, which includes Bermuda, the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, the British Virgin Islands, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia and more.

Of all the territories, state of California has the largest number of codes, assigned by NANP; this sequence is followed by Texas, Florida and New York. Most countries of Caribbean use only one code. Countries like Mexico, Greenland, Miquelon, most Central American countries and some Caribbean countries do not participate in NANP.

North American Numbering Plan was developed by AT&T in 1947 and the implementation of the plan was started in 1951. Its main purpose was to simplify direct dialing of long distance calls.

Each 3-digit area code has a capacity of upto 7,919,900 telephone numbers.

The country calling code for all the countries included in NANP is 1. NANP numbers comprise of 10 digits, the starting three digits are the Numbering Plan Area (NPA) code (prefix number), followed by seven digits local number. Generally, the format of number is represented as;

NXX-NXX-XXXX

Where, N is any digit from 2 to 9, while X is the digit from 0 to 9.

NANP provides its number which is 1-866-623-2282, if any random person has a query or problem regarding the toll free numbers or authority, than he/ she can directly contact the help desk through the above written number and also through their provided email at nanpa-login@somos.com.

TOLL FREE NUMBERS

Toll free numbers are the free phone numbers with the distinct three digits particular area code. The first toll free number was released by AT&T in 1967, which began with the prefix “800”. Toll free numbers are common for customers’ service calling.

Numbers that start with 800, 833, 844, 877, 888, 855, and 866 are all hotline numbers. Each country has specific service numbers. A person from any place can call to these toll free numbers without any charges through landline.

One of the significant points a person should remember while dialing a toll free number that he will not be charged for this call, instead the receiver of a call will be charged and it will not be revealed who the caller actually is. But, a person will be charged according to minutes for this call if he/ she is using mobile phone unless he has an “unlimited calling” plan.

These toll free numbers are non interchangeable, which means if a particular code is assigned to any area then later it cant be changed by anyone. Customers are also provided by the facility of texting messages to these numbers, as these numbers are text enabled and they will also reply back with a text message. 833 Area Code

These numbers provide ease to the overworked staff of phone operating system. Before toll free numbers, a customer wasted his a lot of time as he had to make a number of calls and could not be connected until the call receiver agreed to pay the charges. In single year, around 7 million toll free numbers were assigned to different areas. areacodehelper