Area Code Change Delayed Again
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission announced this afternoon it will continue to suspend any plan to divide the 814 area code, or overlay another area code on it, at least until April.
PUC commissioners made their decision after learning the area code is not expected to run out of available numbers until early 2016. Earlier predictions called for the area code to exhaust its supply of numbers by 2013.
Commissioners voted in 2010 to split the 814 area-code region to prevent it from running out of available numbers. The plan was supposed to take effect in February of this year, with some people switching to the 582 area code.
Petitions against the split, and then new predictions for the exhaustion date convinced the PUC to hold off on the changes.
The PUC is scheduled to receive an update in April on when numbers in the 814 area code could run out.
http://www.puc.state.pa.us/general/press_releases/Press_Releases.aspx?ShowPR=2914\
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PUC commissioners made their decision after learning the area code is not expected to run out of available numbers until early 2016. Earlier predictions called for the area code to exhaust its supply of numbers by 2013.
Commissioners voted in 2010 to split the 814 area-code region to prevent it from running out of available numbers. The plan was supposed to take effect in February of this year, with some people switching to the 582 area code.
Petitions against the split, and then new predictions for the exhaustion date convinced the PUC to hold off on the changes.
The PUC is scheduled to receive an update in April on when numbers in the 814 area code could run out.
http://www.puc.state.pa.us/general/press_releases/Press_Releases.aspx?ShowPR=2914\
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