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Valid US area codes 624, 656, 353 rejected as invalid

Valid US area codes 624, 656, and 353 are flagged as invalid.

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3 public reports · first reported 7 August 2025 · last reported 1 September 2026

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What's going wrong

Phone number validation in the libphonenumber-js library treats three North American area codes, 624, 656, and 353, as unassigned, so numbers using them are flagged as invalid even though the codes are in use.

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