One of California's Oldest Area Codes Gets Overlay
Sacramento will get a new area code, with 279 to be overlaid on the 916 region, the California Public Utilities Commission said in a Thursday news release. The 916 area code, created in 1947 as one of the state’s original…
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three, was projected to run out of prefixes (the first three numbers after the area code) in Q1 2018, the CPUC said. Customers may be assigned the 279 area code starting in September.