New customers will get a 210 or 726 area code, PUC said. When the new area code is assigned, beginning in October 2017, residents will have to dial 10 digits to make a call.

NANPA announced Thursday that the PUC gave the go ahead to make 726 San Antonio's newest area code. And new phone numbers could start being assigned the fresh triple digits by October 2017.

Telephone users in San Antonio must dial 10-digit numbers beginning Sept. 23, 2017, as the Texas Public Utility Commission implements the new '726' area code.

SAN ANTONIO — The North American Numbering Plan Administration announced Thursday that San Antonio has been assigned a new "726" area code, which will be the area's second when it's rolled out ...

A new area code is coming to the land of 210. The new overlay area code for San Antonio is 726, according to the Public Utility Commission of Texas.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Get ready to punch in three more numbers if you want to call someone in the Bexar County area.In a news release Thursday, the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) said 726 has ...

San Antonio is expected to run out of them for the 210 area code in early 2018. An area code typically has 792 usable prefixes, with each prefix containing 10,000 numbers, for a possible total of ...

San Antonio will soon join the ranks of Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and Austin to become a large metropolitan city with more than one area code.

SAN ANTONIO – In the future you could be assigned 726 as your San Antonio area code. The North American Numbering Plan Administrator assigned 726 as the overlay area code for San Antonio’s 210 ...

New customers will get the 726 area code after the remaining available numbers with 210 are used. This applies to the majority of Bexar County and parts of Atascosa, Comal, Guadalupe, Medina and ...