BOISE - Idaho regulators say the state will get a second area code as soon as 2017, which will require 10-digit dialing for the first time throughout the state. The Idaho Public Utilities Commission ...

BOISE • Idaho will run out of 208-prefix phone numbers in about two years, the Idaho Public Utilities Commission announced Tuesday. An agency that contracts with the federal government to administer ...

Idaho regulators say the state will get a second area code as soon as 2017, which will require 10-digit dialing for the first time throughout the state. The Idaho Public Utilities Commission announced ...

Idaho’s new area code will live side-by-side with its existing 208 area code as an overlay, requiring 10-digit dialing across the state. Statesman staff The Idaho Public Utilities Commission announced ...

To ensure a continuing supply of telephone numbers, and new 986 area code will be added to the area served by 208, according to the Public Utilities Commission. This is known as an area code overlay.

BOISE – Idaho will add a second area code – 986 – in late 2017. That news follows the Idaho Public Utilities Commission’s unanimous decision Monday to implement the new area code as a “geographic ...

Loyal reader Kevin Walter writes in with this great Google tip: When I get random calls from area codes I like to quickly be able to figure out where it is from in case I happen to know someone there ...