West Scranton residents Don and Cheryl Tucker changed their cellphone carriers earlier this year and each was assigned a new phone number with a 272 area code. At first, they thought it was a mistake.

They first started popping up in 2014, but not many in Northeastern Pennsylvania have received the new 272 area code. In an area with more than 3 million active phone numbers, fewer than 5,000 with ...

West Scranton residents Don and Cheryl Tucker changed their cellphone carriers earlier this year and each was assigned a new phone number with a 272 area code. At first, they thought it was a mistake.

They first started popping up in 2014, but not many in Northeast Pennsylvania have received the new 272 area code. In an area with more than 3 million active phone numbers, fewer than 5,000 with the ...

People living in the current 570 area code will have to dial 10-digit numbers. The days of new phone numbers being handed out in the 570 area code are, well, numbered. Residents and businesses in ...

Northeastern Pennsylvania, meet your new area code overlay. The state Public Utility Commission announced Friday that 272 will be used in the 570 area code as the first three digits for new phone ...

We’ve been punching in 10 digits on our telephones to make a local call for more than three years. The reason was the implementation of a second area code, 272, assigned as an overlay area code by the ...

The number 272 will be the overlay area code for the 570 area code when implemented. The North American Numbering Plan Administrator informed the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission that the new ...

Implementation of an overlay in the 570 area code has been delayed a year, a state official said this week. A new 272 area code overlay scheduled for implementation in the third quarter of this year ...

Northeast Pennsylvania gained the 272 area code almost two years ago. Yet few 272 numbers have been assigned since then. “There are still 11 prefixes still available in 570,” said John Manning, ...

Your fingers may be in for an added workout soon. Sometime between July and September, residents in the 570 area code will have to dial 10 digits for all local calls. Phone carriers will run out of ...