From the Jersey shore to Central Jersey, phone calls just got a bit more complicated due to the introduction of a new area code and dialing procedures. A number of changes are coming to New Jersey’s ...

Residents and business owners in parts of Northern California will soon have access to a new area code, according to the California Public Utilities Commission. With new telephone numbers in the 530 ...

In the modern era, where phone numbers are portable and geography is less tied to a person’s culture, area codes still hold a surprising amount of social weight. While the seven digits following an ...

It's very easy to chalk up certain facets of our lives to just being "the way it's always been." From daylight savings time to time zones, most of us don't even give a second thought to the meaning ...