Today’s 507 area code. To heck with geography. It soon no longer will be an “area code” just a “code.”
Prepare to to reprogram those ol’ familiar numbers
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The State Public Utilities Commission authorized phone companies to use a new area code – 924 – for new users in southern Minnesota. Why? There aren’t many seven-digit 507 numbers left. By next March the 507 numbers all will have been assigned. That’s when 924 kicks in. Southern Minnesota then will have two codes, both 507 and 924. The telecommunication industry wanted it that way – an “all-services distributed overlay,” they call it. The PUC went along with a unanimous vote.. Dividing the current area geographically, the phone companies said, would have been more difficult for them. So now the burden will be on users to tap 11 digits to call from 507 to 924 numbers. And vice versa. Even across the street.