(WHTM) — When dialing the phone or texting someone, you may notice three numbers that come before the actual phone number. Area codes have been around since the 1940s and are apart of the North ...

PENNSYLVANIA (WHTM) – Some Pennsylvania residents will see a new area code come into effect starting next month. The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission says residents and businesses in eastern and ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Southeastern Pennsylvania has a new area code on Friday. The new area code, 8-3-5, joins 6-1-0 and 4-8-4. The new digits will serve portions of suburban Philadelphia and the ...

In two weeks, the new 835 area code will be activated in eastern and southeastern Pennsylvania. Beginning Sept. 2, the new area code will join the existing 610 and 484 area codes in the region. The ...

In a time of cell-phone-saved contact lists where you don't even have to dial, it may be hard to remember how much of a shake-up the transition to 10-digit dialing was decades ago.One woman we spoke ...