727 was going to be introduced in an overlay plan, to overlay 813. At the time, overlays were a new concept and since overlays result in mixing area codes within the same area (issuing the new code to new numbers) requiring 10-digit dialing, they were often met with public resistance. GTE (now part of Frontier Communications), the dominant carrier in most of the Tampa Bay Area, switched the proposal to a split plan.
The split largely followed county lines, with the notable exception of Oldsmar, most of which stayed in 813. Oldsmar's trunk is wired into the Tampa line, and it would have been too expensive for GTE to rewire it.
area, code, covers, pinellas, county, florida, including, petersburg, clearwater, pinellas, park, among, many, other, municipalities, excluding, majority, oldsmar, western, third, pasco, county, including, port, richey, port, richey, holiday, years, counties, . Area code 727 covers Pinellas County Florida including St Petersburg Clearwater and Pinellas Park among many other municipalities but excluding the majority of Oldsmar and the western third of Pasco County including Port Richey New Port Richey and Holiday For 43 years the 13 counties around Tampa Bay including cities such as Sarasota Ellenton and Port Charlotte were in area code 813 In 1998 Pinellas County and the western part of Pasco County were split into area code 727 727 was going to be introduced in an overlay plan to overlay 813 At the time overlays were a new concept and since overlays result in mixing area codes within the same area issuing the new code to new numbers requiring 10 digit dialing they were often met with public resistance GTE now part of Frontier Communications the dominant carrier in most of the Tampa Bay Area switched the proposal to a split plan The split largely followed county lines with the notable exception of Oldsmar most of which stayed in 813 Oldsmar s trunk is wired into the Tampa line and it would have been too expensive for GTE to rewire it See also EditList of Florida area codes List of NANP area codes North American Numbering PlanReferences EditFlorida s Area Code HistoryExternal links EditNANPA area code map of Florida List of exchanges from AreaCodeDownload com 727 Area CodeFlorida area codes 239 305 786 321 352 386 407 689 561 727 772 813 850 448 863 904 941 954 754 North 352West Gulf of Mexico Area Code 727 East 813South 941 nbsp This Florida state location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Area code 727 amp oldid 1082028716, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
