The report said about 3.9 million numbers are available in the 818 area code, including 1.2 million set aside by the commission for assigning in blocks to telecommunications companies, 1.8 million ...

If the area code isn’t included, the call won’t work. So, for instance, if you’re in the 818 area code and you want to call your neighbor to complain about a barking dog, you still need to ...

If you're in the Valley, you'll be dialing 11 numbers to reach your next door neighbor beginning tomorrow when the 747 area code lands. "The 747 area code is only the third overlay in the history ...

Starting last Saturday, two days before the fire, any local calls made within the 818 area code required 1-818 before dialing local numbers because of the new 747 area code overlay.

LOS ANGELES — Telecommunications companies urged residents with an 818 area code to begin the new eleven-digit dialing procedure Saturday to get in the habit before it becomes mandatory next spring.

The state utilities commission approved the new area code in 2008, saying the vallley was running out of 818 numbers. The new 747 area code will be handed out with numbers starting in May.

Bridget Oberlin, an actress from North Hollywood, said the Valley should adopt an area-code split, with the east part of the Valley getting the 818.

But starting at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, people with personal or business phone numbers containing the 818 area code will have to dial 1, then 818 for all local calls.

And covering a sizable swath of the San Fernando Valley is the obsessed-over 818. The area code's special occasion is coming up — that would be Aug. 18, though you're free to call it 8/18 or 8. ...