Telephone numbers in Norfolk Island Telephone numbers in Norfolk Island In Norfolk Island: Country code +672 was originally assigned to Portuguese Timor until annexed by Indonesia in 1975. It is also used for the Australian Antarctic Territory, whose numbers are in area code 1. The code was also used for Christmas Island and the Cocos Keeling Islands until October 1994 (encompassing area codes 2 and 4), when they were migrated to the +61 country code, under area code 091 (using exchange prefixes 62 for Christmas Island and 64 for the Cocos Islands). These numbers have since been migrated to 08 9162 and 08 9164 respectively.
Area code 562 at the time of 310's creation, Pacific Bell (now AT&T Inc.) was the primary telephone company for most of Southern California, whereas this region's primary telephone company was GTE (now Verizon). In fact, when this region was originally split from the 213 area code to become the 310 area code, Pacific Bell, being the primary local telephone company for this area (and had authority to decide what codes stayed in 213 and which ones moved), chose to move all of GTE's area code 213 exchanges into the 310 area code. Area code 562 Area code 562 is a California telephone