Dial Plans for Caribbean Countries Overview¶
Country, ISO, and Area Codes for Caribbean countries¶
The following Caribbean countries follow North American Numbering Plan (NANP) and most of these countries have one area code, except Puerto Rico with two and The Dominican Republic with three area codes. The Caribbean countries are:
| Country | ISO | Area Code |
|---|---|---|
| Anguilla | AIA | 264 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | ATG | 268 |
| The Bahamas | BHS | 242 |
| Barbados | BRB | 246 |
| Bermuda | BMU | 441 |
| The British Virgin Islands | BVI | 284 |
| The Cayman Islands | CYM | 345 |
| The Commonwealth of Dominica | DMA | 767 |
| The Dominican Republic | DOM | 809, 829, 849 |
| Grenada | GRD | 473 |
| Jamaica | JAM | 876 |
| Montserrat | MSR | 664 |
| Puerto Rico | PRI | 787, 939 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | KNA | 869 |
| Saint Lucia | LCA | 758 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | VCT | 784 |
| Saint Maarten | SXM | 721 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | 868 |
| The Turks and Caicos Islands | TCA | 649 |
| The US Virgin Islands | VIR | 340 |
Calls to neighboring Caribbean countries will be treated similar to calls to USA or Canada. They will be treated as Call Type 03.
Since all of these countries are in the NANP dial plan, and instead of repeating the common Translation Patterns for each country, the dial plans for Caribbean Countries have been split into NANP Schema, and each Country specific Schema.
Call Type Options for Caribbean Countries¶
Calls to neighboring Caribbean countries can be treated similar to calls to the USA or Canada. In this case they will be treated as Call Type 03 (Normally mobile call type, but has been reused as Calls to NANP countries including USA, Canada and other Caribbean Countries).
Since all of these countries are in the NANP dial plan, and instead of repeating the common Translation Patterns for each country, the dial plans for Caribbean Countries have been split into NANP Schema, and each Country specific Schema.
Alternatively, calls to the Caribbean countries can be treated differently than calls to USA or Canada with the use of the CariCC schema. With this schema the area codes belonging to the Caribbean countries will be call typed as Call Type 12 (International Restricted).
Use the following table as a guide when implementing dial plans for Caribbean countries.
Use of Call Type 03 or Call Type 12 for Caribbean Countries
| Call Type (3) | Call Type (12) |
|---|---|
| Configure NANP schema. (The first time any Caribbean country is to be deployed, the NanpDP schema has to be specified. Subsequent Caribbean countries do not require this step.) | Configure NANP Schema. (The first time any Caribbean country schema is to be deployed, the Customer specific NanpDP schema and CariCCDP Schema is to be included along with the Country specific Schema. The subsequent Caribbean countries only need the Country specific Schema.) |
| Configure Site Schema | Configure CariCC schema |
| Configure Customer Schema | Configure Country Specific schema |
| Configure Calling Search spaces | Configure Feature schema |
| Configure Site schema | |
| Configure Calling Search Spaces | |
| Configure Route List | |
| Configure Route Patterns |
