From today, people in five areas of the UK will need to include the area code when they dial a local number from a landline. In the same way as numbers are dialled from mobile phone, callers in ...

A number of changes are coming to New Jersey’s phone services to ensure a continuing supply of telephone numbers including 10-digit dialing and a new 640 area code.

Placing a call to a number with a '209' area code will soon require dialers to hit 1, then 2-0-9, then the last seven digits.