FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- A new area code is coming to North Carolina. The new code will be 472 and it will overlay the existing 910 area code and will serve the same geographic area but will not ...

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 ...

BUTLER, WARREN COUNTIES — The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio on Wednesday approved a plan to overlay a new area code over the existing 513 area code. The area code, which covers southwest Ohio, ...

A new 274 area code prefix will join phone numbers in the 920 area code Friday, the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin announced early April. The 920 area code will soon start running short on new ...

(WSIL) -- The North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) has announced that a new area code, 235, will be joining the current 573 area code in Missouri, ensuring that all residential and ...

West Scranton residents Don and Cheryl Tucker changed their cellphone carriers earlier this year and each was assigned a new phone number with a 272 area code. At first, they thought it was a mistake.

The Public Service Commission announced it approved the North American Number Plan Administrator’s proposal to create an additional area code for the 845 region. What those three digits will be is ...

New area code, who dis? The Big Apple is getting a new area code after a state board Thursday approved a long-gestating request by wireless companies for a fresh three-digit prefix to join existing ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The greater Los Angeles area is getting a new telephone area code. According to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), area code 738 will be activated as an "overlay" ...

The Houston area is running out of telephone numbers and will soon add a fifth area code to accommodate its growing population. According to the Public Utility Commission of Texas, Houston's four ...

Maine's sole area code, the iconic 207, will eventually lose that distinction. PHOTO / WILLIAM HALL Two-zero-seven, the area code that’s as synonymous with Maine as lobster or wild blueberries, has ...