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Committee votes ITL on bill directing state planning for a second area code after NANPA oversight cited
Summary
House Bill 708 would have directed the Department of Energy to begin planning for an overlay area code to supplement New Hampshire’s 603 area code. DOE told the committee that the North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) controls exhaust projections and code assignments, and that conservation steps the state directed in 2024 pushed the projected exhaustion date out to 2029.
Representative Timothy Horrigan introduced House Bill 708, which would direct the Department of Energy to begin planning for the introduction of an overlay area code to supplement New Hampshire’s 603 area code. Horrigan noted the state’s sole area code dates to 1947 and that multiple conservation steps have delayed projected exhaust dates in recent years.
Megan Stone, legislative liaison for the Department of…
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