In Southern California, an area code can say a lot about a person. Are you a 310, a 213 or a 323? What does it mean if you have a 562 or an 818?

A key change last fall has helped delay the breakup of the 310 area code. The PUC limited carriers to taking 1,000 new numbers at a time rather than the previous limit of 10,000.

In 2003, the commission determined that a split of the 310 area code was not warranted, Gordon’s office said. He recently introduced legislation, Assembly Bill 1380, to impose rules for ...

Additionally, every new automated teller machine, credit card dialer, or other automated dialing machine in the 310, 323, 213, 562 and 909 area codes would go into the two new area codes.

Westside residents are again fighting to keep their 310 area code. A revision in phone number rationing delayed the process but, faced with a finite total of numbers, the PUC has opened the public ...

Under the state's first new area code overlay, virtually all new phone numbers within the 310 territory will be assigned the new 424 area code, starting in August 2006; existing numbers will ...

With news of the change in the 310 area code, Professor Noll will reveal why we’re running out of area codes so quickly, and why, in ten years, area codes may have 4 digits instead of 3.