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 ...

A second area code — 820 — for those already in the 805 will mean a different way of calling for people on the Central Coast, with a 6-month practice period kicking off Dec. 1 (Verizon map) A second ...

CITYWIDE — A PROPOSED NEW OVERLAY AREA CODE for parts of New York City will be the topic of two virtual public statement hearings that the New York State Public Service Commission will hold on Tuesday ...

John Manning doesn’t know why telecommunications carriers serving northeastern New York believe they need so many phone numbers. But the requests for so-called central office codes were coming at such ...

Who keeps the 714 area code? Who gets the new 657? The Lansner on Real Estate blog wondered what its readers thought the California Public Utility Commission should do: •One proposal is loosely a ...

The Times really dialed a wrong number. Our previous efforts to defeat the overlay were not to protect our “vaunted” area code but to avoid dialing four extra digits each and every time we pick up a ...