The 570 area code is already transitioning to 10-digit dialing. It will become mandatory a month before the new 272 area code is introduced on October 21 in the same region with the area running ...

The 570/272 area codes footprint stretches from the Delaware River in Northeast Pennsylvania west to Renovo near Lock Haven, and from the New York border south to Pine Grove, and just above the ...

The 570 area code is already transitioning to 10-digit dialing. It will become mandatory a month before the new 272 area code is introduced on Oct. 21 in the same region with the area running out ...

Warm up your index finger. This time next year, you may have to dial all 10 digits of a local phone number. With available phone numbers running out in the 570 area code, the state Public Utility C… ...

The state Public Utility Commission announced the area code overlay for the 570 region will be 272.The move will require that people dial 10 digits for all local phone calls as new phones are ...

The area affected by the change includes Portland and Upper Mount Bethel Township. The region is expected to exhaust the phone numbers available in the 570 area code during 2011.

If a public hearing Thursday in Scranton was any indication, the 570 area code will soon have a whole new area code laid over it and assigned to new phone accounts.Northeast Pennsylvania is close ...

Splitting the area code means that half of the phone customers in the existing area get to keep the 570 prefix, and half must switch to a new area code. That's an adjustment that requires ...

Conserving numbers in the 570 region, once predicted to run out by 2002, has delayed the need for a new area code. The PUC in 2003 denied a petition to overlay 570, which it said would be full of ...

The days of the region’s 570 area code use could be numbered.With phone numbers within the 570 and 814 area codes becoming exhausted, the state Public Utility Commission is looking into two ...