Starting Saturday, some Californians with a 408 area code will...
Starting Saturday, some Californians with a 408 area code will need to start dialing more numbers to make their calls, the California Public Utilities Commission said Wednesday (http://xrl.us/bnup9n). “Last year, the CPUC approved an all-services overlay that added a new…
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669 area code to the same geographic region as the existing 408 area code in order to provide additional telephone numbers to meet increasing consumer demand.” The change won’t affect cellphone customers, the CPUC said. Now, wireline customers in the 408 area code region, primarily in Santa Clara County, need to enter “1” plus the area code and seven-digit number, the CPUC said. Those callers who fail to do so will fail to complete their calls, it said. Calls made to 911, 311, and other three-digit public numbers can still be made as currently, the CPUC added. It advised people to ensure certain equipment is updated with the new dialing procedure and pointed to life safety systems, fax machines, Internet dial-up numbers, alarm and security systems, speed dialers, gates, mobile phone contact lists, call forwarding settings and voicemail services that may be programmed with numbers. The CPUC approved the overlay exactly one year prior to the new dialing procedure’s start date, said its advisory site on the area code (http://xrl.us/bnup9x).