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The prestige code: How area codes shape culture and influence in 2025

PeopleWin reports area codes hold cultural prestige, shaping perceptions of status and influencing professional interactions in 2025.
KJZZ

There are nearly 8 million possible numbers in an area code. How is Arizona’s 520 running out?

Sometime in the next five years or so, some southern Arizona residents are going to find out that their new neighbors have a different area code.
Columbus Dispatch

No more 614? Here's when the Columbus area code will run out of numbers

Columbus's 614 area code, overlaid with 380 in 2016, is projected to run out of numbers by 2061. Technology, rather than population growth, is the primary driver of area code exhaustion. The 614 area ...
KSLA

457 area code to be added to 318 area code region this year

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Starting in September 2025, AT&T says new phone numbers could be assigned a new 457 area code. The new area code to overlay the 318 area code is 457. An overlay is the ...