Area codes 510 and 341

Last updated August 14, 2023

Area codes 510 and 341 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) serving much of the East Bay in the U.S. state of California. They cover parts of Contra Costa County and western Alameda County, including the city of Oakland, but excluding Dublin, Livermore, Pleasanton, and Sunol.

Area code 510 was established on September 2, 1991, in a split from area code 415.^[1] On March 4, 1998, the inland portion of the East Bay was split off as area code 925. The dividing line followed the Berkeley Hills; almost everything west of the hills stayed in 510, while everything east of the hills transferred to 925.

In response to projections that 510 would exhaust in the second quarter of 2019, the California Public Utilities Commission approved the addition of an overlay area code, 341, to serve the East Bay. The first central office codes in 341 became available on July 22, 2019.^[2]^[3] Ten-digit dialing became mandatory in the East Bay a month earlier, on June 22.^[4]

Service area

The service area contains the following cities in two counties.

Alameda County

Contra Costa County

Introduction of 341

By 2016, the California Public Utilities Commission (CUPC) projected that NPA 510 would exhaust its numbering pool by the second quarter of 2019. In response, the commission held meetings in Berkeley, Oakland and Hayward in January and February 2017 to discuss area code relief for 510.^[2] The North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) proposed in May 2017 that CPUC relieve 510 by introducing the overlay area code 341 for the entire territory. NANPA had previously assigned 341 as the relief area code for 510 in 1999, but nationwide number pooling procedures eliminated the need at that time. The NANPA retained 341 for the then-future relief of 510.^[5] CPUC accepted the NANPA proposal in a decision on June 21, 2018.^[3] With the start of the overlay plan in July 2019, all customers in the numbering plan area can be assigned telephone numbers with either code, and must dial the area code for all calls; otherwise, a recorded message will remind them if they dial incorrectly.^[6]^[7]

Prior usage of 510 for TWX

In 1962, AT&T assigned NPA 510 for conversion to dial service of the Teletypewriter Exchange Service (TWX) in the United States.^[8]^[9] Telex use of area code 510 was decommissioned in 1981 after conversion of the service to new transmission technologies by Western Union,

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References

↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2008-09-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
1 2 Prosper, Terrie (June 21, 2018). "CPUC Provides More Numbers in 510 Area Code Region" (PDF) (Press release). California Public Utilities Commission . Retrieved June 21, 2018.
1 2 California Public Utilities Commission (June 21, 2018). "Decision Granting Request for an All-Service Area Code Overlay in the 510 Numbering Plan Area" (PDF). Retrieved June 21, 2018.
↑ "341 Area Code, New Dialing Procedure Coming To Alameda, Contra Costa Counties". KPIX-TV. June 21, 2019.
↑ North American Numbering Plan Administrator (May 19, 2017). "Application of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator, On Behalf of the California Telecommunications Industry, For Relief of the 510 Numbering Plan Area" (PDF). Retrieved June 21, 2018.
↑ Avalos, George (June 21, 2018). "341 is the East Bay's new telephone area code, joining 510, 925". The Mercury News . Retrieved June 21, 2018.
↑ NANPA planning letter PL-518 for area code 341 overlay
↑ Tyberghein, E.J. (July 1962). "TWX Goes Dial". Bell Laboratories Record: 232.
↑ Traffic Routing Guide, sec. 15-16, AT&T, 1975

External links

California area codes: 209, 213/323, 279/916, 310/424, 341/510, 408/669, 415/628, 442/760, 530, 559, 562, 619/858, 626, 650, 657/714, 661, 707, 747/818, 805/820, 831, 840/909, 925, 949, 951
	North: 707
West: 415/628, 650	area code 510/341	East: 925
	South: 408/669

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[1] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2008-09-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[cpuc-press-release-2] 1 2 Prosper, Terrie (June 21, 2018). "CPUC Provides More Numbers in 510 Area Code Region" (PDF) (Press release). California Public Utilities Commission . Retrieved June 21, 2018.

[cpuc-order-3] 1 2 California Public Utilities Commission (June 21, 2018). "Decision Granting Request for an All-Service Area Code Overlay in the 510 Numbering Plan Area" (PDF). Retrieved June 21, 2018.

[4] "341 Area Code, New Dialing Procedure Coming To Alameda, Contra Costa Counties". KPIX-TV. June 21, 2019.

[nanpa-proposal-to-cpuc-5] North American Numbering Plan Administrator (May 19, 2017). "Application of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator, On Behalf of the California Telecommunications Industry, For Relief of the 510 Numbering Plan Area" (PDF). Retrieved June 21, 2018.

[6] Avalos, George (June 21, 2018). "341 is the East Bay's new telephone area code, joining 510, 925". The Mercury News . Retrieved June 21, 2018.

[7] NANPA planning letter PL-518 for area code 341 overlay

[8] Tyberghein, E.J. (July 1962). "TWX Goes Dial". Bell Laboratories Record: 232.

[9] Traffic Routing Guide, sec. 15-16, AT&T, 1975

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