Pennsylvania is expanding its transition period in overlaying area codes. ...
Pennsylvania is expanding its transition period in overlaying area codes. The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission voted 5-0 to expand the customer education and permissive dialing period from three months to six months, the PUC said Wednesday (http://xrl.us/bn4yd8). The state plans…
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to implement an overlay, moving from the 570 area code, projected to be exhausted in the third quarter of 2013, to 272. The permissive period allows customers to call “by either dialing ten or seven digits” while the PUC educates them that 10 digits will be necessary after the transition period, according to the commission. The transition period will begin six months before the exhaustion date, it added. The PUC also reauthorized the 911 charges of Philadelphia and Warren counties, neither of which requested a change in rates and that together serve more than 1.5 million Pennsylvania residents (http://xrl.us/bn4yeg).