Area code 701

The Fargo LATA extends for some distance into northern Minnesota, as far east as Brainerd.

Numbering plan exhaust projections forecast that North Dakota will not need a new area code until 2029.

Being the sole area code in North Dakota, seven-digit dialing is in effect for all calls within the state.

The situation was threatened in 2020, when it was anticipated that the state had to transition to always dialing ten digits, because of the implementation of a short-code (988) for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, because that code was assigned as a central office prefix to an office (CLLI code BSMRNDJC) in Bismarck.

[2] This action removed the need to implement ten-digit dialing in area code 701, until relief is necessary in the future.

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