Big changes to making phone calls in D.C. are about to go into effect. Phone numbers with the District’s new 771 area code will be issued starting next month, and using the area code while dialing ...

After more than half a century, the District’s beloved 202 area code is running out of numbers. The impending shortage, announced recently by the North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA), ...

If you have a D.C. phone number, you may want to hold on to it. Phone numbers with the 202 area code are expected to run out as early as 2023, according to the company that administers area codes ...

When it comes to calls placed by Washingtonians, 771 is the new 202. With the 202 area code expected to run out of numbers by the end of 2022, D.C. has been assigned 771 as its replacement. The new ...

Hold onto your 202 hoodies and T-shirts: There’s a new area code in town. Well, in a few years there will be. DC will add the area code 771 to local numbers by the end of 2022, according to the DC ...

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — Washington D.C. has only had one area code for the past seven decades, and it's about to get a second. The District is set to run out of 202 phone numbers during the third quarter ...

The area code 202 is synonymous with D.C. — it’s been the District’s sole area code for more than 70 years. But come 2022, when new phone numbers are forecast to run out, there’ll be a new three-digit ...

WASHINGTON — QUESTION: If a new area code is put in place for a city, does that mean you have to change your current phone number or will lose it if it has the old area code? ANSWER: You do not need ...

D.C. has had one single area code — 202 — for more than 70 years. But it will soon be joined by a second area code, and the plan to make it happen gets a virtual public hearing at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept ...

In just a few short years, D.C. could be a city divided — by little more than a three-digit number. The supply of phone numbers with the city's (202) area code is shrinking, raising the possibility ...