Personal communications service (NANP)

This article is about the North American Numbering Plan 5XX area codes. For the mobile phone technology, see Personal Communications Service.
"500 number" redirects here. For the natural number, see 500 (number).

In telecommunication, a personal communications service is defined by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) as "a set of capabilities that allows some combination of personal mobility, terminal mobility, and service profile management".[1]

Personal communications services use a special non-geographic area code of the format 5XX for assigning telephone numbers for service instances.[2]

The designation of the 5XX area code format was authorized by the United States Federal Communications Commission, and introduced into the North American Numbering Plan in 1995.

  1. ^ "Personal Communications Services (PCS) 5YY NXX Code Assignment Guidelines". Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions. 2008-06-30. Retrieved 2008-08-28.
  2. ^ "Assignment of NPA 544 for Personal Communications Services (PCS)" (PDF). NANPA. 2010-09-28. Retrieved 2010-09-28.