WASHINGTON — QUESTION: If a new area code is put in place for a city, does that mean you have to change your current phone number or will lose it if it has the old area code? ANSWER: You do not need ...

Have you received a phone call recently from someone with a 689 area code and wondered where it’s from? It’s coming from Central Florida, but the odds of that number popping up on your screen aren’t ...

According to a projected 2025 report by the Number Planning Area, the 956 area code could be exhausted as early as 2027 or as ...

Jul. 12—Dear Answer Man: I hear we have a new area code in southern Minnesota. Do a lot of people have phone numbers with this area code yet? Do I need to start practicing dialing the new code to be ...

(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 ...

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 ...