Philadelphia Area Getting Another Area Code Amid Oncoming Number Exhaustion
The Philadelphia region is getting a third area code, as that market and other places deal with number exhaustion. Area code 445 was assigned to the existing 215/267 overlay area there, Neustar said in a Thursday news release. The company,…
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in its role as North American Numbering Plan administrator, forecasts "that numbering resources in the 215/267 area code complex will be exhausted" by Q2 2018; the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission directed LECs to activate the new code. Pennsylvania is among states and territories adding new area codes, Neustar said recently (see 1611080012).