If you have a 540 area code, you’ll have to dial three more digits to make a local call starting this Saturday. According to Virginia’s State Corporation Commission (SCC), it will be mandatory as of ...

Everyone living in the 540 area code region will soon have to dial three more digits when making a phone call — a three-digit area code, plus the seven-digit telephone number. All calls in the 540 ...

If you have a 540 area code, you’ll have to dial three more digits to make a local call starting this Saturday. According to Virginia’s State Corporation Commission (SCC), it will be mandatory as of ...

Existing customers will retain current numbers when a new area code is added to the 540 region. The State Corporation Commission (SCC) announced that the North American Numbering Plan Administrator ...

The State Corporation Commission announced today that the North American Numbering Plan Administrator has assigned a new area code to western and northern portions of the Commonwealth. The new 826 ...

As the region's population grows, phone numbers available in the 540 area code are quickly running out. Numbers in the 540 area code will be depleted by the second quarter of 2022, and the State ...

The 540 area code is close to running out of available numbers, so a second area code will soon be added within the same footprint, and that means the time is coming when all local calls will require ...

, Virginia's State Corporation Commission (SCC) announced that they were asking for public comments on proposed solutions to a rapidly approaching problem: the '540' area code region was projected to ...

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