When the new 442 area code overlay goes into effect on May 2,everyone in the 760 area code should dial the full number for allcalls. That’s one of the steps telephone companies say callers shouldtake ...

In the beginning, there were telephones, but no telephone numbers. Calls were placed by operators, who connected people by name. Then came numbers, but the first phone numbers were short — “5” could ...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has received notice that the number 582 will be the new overlay area code for the current 814 area code, which covers all or parts of 27 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) has announced the new area code number to relieve the exhaust of numbers in the 405 area. The Oklahoma Corporation ...

New York is running out of 845 area code phone numbers. The state Public Service Commission is considering creating a new area code to solve that problem, and area residents will have three chances to ...

Although the basics of the "809 area code" scam were once real, this item has also become one of the most relentlessly overpublicized instances of online scarelore, with dire warnings all out of ...

approved a plan today for an overlay in the zone served by the 570 area code. The area affected by the change includes Portland and Upper Mount Bethel Township. The region is expected to exhaust the ...

Central New Yorkers can start preparing for the introduction of a second area code to join 315, which has been in use since 1947. (AP/Manu Fernandez) SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The state Public Service ...

Between 929, 718, 646, and half a dozen more triple-digit arrangements, New York City is a thicket of area codes. They abut, interlock, and overlap to the general confusion of callers and caller ID ...

Many residents in northeastern and central Pennsylvania will have to make calls by dialing 10 digits starting this fall. The state Public Utility Commission said Wednesday that customers within the ...