The North American Numbering Plan Administrator (“NANPA”) has informed the Kentucky Public Service Commission that residents ...

Because of the uproar, state regulators halted plans to add 12 area codes in California, which had become the country’s king of area codes, with 25 in use statewide.

Idaho, which was one of the few remaining single-area-code states, rolled out its second area code, 986, earlier this year. BOISE — Idaho used to be just one of 12 states with only one area code.

Some central Kentuckians with a current 502 area code will have to start dialing a few more numbers to make a local call.

(T-Mobile Photo) Washingtonians, get ready for a new area code. T-Mobile is letting customers know that a long-planned additional area code for western Washington State — 564 — is coming in 2017.

A new area code is coming to Kentucky in 2027, according to the Public Service Commission. The newest area code will be 761, ...

With the two area codes distributed as proposed, the state, by most estimates, will have enough telephone numbers to meet demand until the year 2005, when a third area code will have to be added.

Earlier this year, state officials held a meeting in Louisville to plan for 2027, when the 502 area code exhausts its ...