PHILIPSBURG--The Bureau Telecommunication & Post St. Maarten (BTPSXM) announced on Monday that the use of St. Maarten's new dialling code 1-721 will commence as of September 30.
Calls to St. Maarten using either 00-599 or 1-721 will be processed regularly during a "permissive dialling period" which will run until September 30, 2012. Callers using 00-599 will be advised that the dialling code has changed and the new code should be used.
The Mandatory Dialling Period will commence on September 30, 2012, and remain in effect until March 31, 2013. During this period calls to St. Maarten using 00-599 will not be processed and callers will be advised to dial 1-721 for calls to St. Maarten.
The use of country code 00-599 will be discontinued for St. Maarten, but will remain in effect for Cura�ao, St. Eustatius, Saba and Bonaire.
Local dialling will remain the same and persons and businesses can be reached by dialling the seven-digit local numbers. International dialling will change by September 30, 2012, as the dialling pattern to make overseas calls from St. Maarten will change. BTPSXM said it would undertake an educational programme to inform the public on dialling during the permissive dialling period.
Countries participating in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) are the United States, Canada and most of the Caribbean region: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago. "Dialling to these destinations will be easier, as all these destinations share the country code '1' with St. Maarten," BTPSXM explained in a press statement Monday.
St. Maarten's participation in the NANP also marks its integration into the Eastern Caribbean, the region in which it is located and with which it interacts and serves.
"Throughout the permissive dialling period the BTP shall undertake instruction and educational campaigns to aid the transition and to ensure understanding, preparedness of the entire community of St. Maarten, so the community may embrace the changes and enjoy the benefits that this transition will bring.
"Bureau Telecommunication and Post St. Maarten requests all residents and businesses to get informed and to take serious note of this important development for country St. Maarten. Everyone is urged to make the necessary preparations and inform all their personal contacts and business relations in a timely fashion of this upcoming change," BTPSXM stated.
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