Pennsylvania is continuing to get new area codes as existing...
Pennsylvania is continuing to get new area codes as existing ones near exhaustion. The move to an area code of 878 as part of an overlay plan will now be in an “activation phase,” said the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission…
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of the add on for the 412 and 724 area codes. “The Commission has learned that the 724 [numbering plan area] is nearing exhaust and that the need to activate the 878 area code is imminent,” it said Friday (http://xrl.us/bog7pm). The state had had mandatory 10-digit dialing since July 2011 for the 412 and 724 regions and now residents will need to dial 10 numbers throughout the entirety of the 828, 412 and 724 areas, according to the PUC.