I have to learn a new dialing system???

So, I read in Jeff Berger's recent newsletter from October 13th that soon SXM will no longer be using the country code 599, and will instead be assigned an entirely different prefix, 721.

I went looking on the internet and found a PDF file from NANPA, the North American Numbering Plan Administration. Here is a link (it asks you to download a PDF file.)

This annoys me. The current system makes perfect sense to me. 599 is the country code for the Netherlands Antilles, and the next number, 5, is what all St. Maarten phone numbers start with. Saba numbers start with 6. After the country code. I suppose this is something that is happening as SXM secedes from the N.A.? Hmph.