A new area code was recently announced for the Western Quebec communities of Drummondville, Gatineau, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivieres and more. The new area code 873 will become active on September the 15th, 2012 and will cover the same geographic area currently served by area code 819. With the introduction of the new 873/819 overlay complex this [...]

Sint Maarten is a Caribbean territory known as a Constituent Country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Sint Maarten along with 5 more islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba and Sint Eustatius) used to constitute the Netherlands Antilles until October 2010 when the country was disolved. The southern part of the Sint Maarten island (also known [...]

A relief plan was approved back in 2008 for area code 920 of Wisconsin, USA. This area code covers the Eastern part of the state with larger cities such as Green Bay, Oshkosh or Sheboygan. The same geographic area will also be served by the new NPA 274 which will overlay NPA 920 starting March [...]

A new area code will be introduced to overlay existing NPA 918 covering the eastern part of Oklahoma (Broken Arrow, McAlester, Tulsa). The new NPA 539 will become active on April 1, 2011. The permissive 10 digit dialing period for area code 918 was introduced on August 7, 2010. Mandatory 10 digit dialing will be [...]