Today, eastern Tennessee’s area code 423 (incl. Chattanooga and Bristol but not Knoxville) gets an overlay with 729.

Originally planned for March, but postponed because of the flooding in large parts of the area.

You won’t see any actual 729 numbers for a while, not until 423 actually runs out.

#TelNum news: Today, British Columbia adds overlay #AreaCode 257, bringing the province to 6 area codes.

That’s too many. It’s unsustainable. Canada is using far more than its fair share, clinging to outdated 20th-century policies that waste numbers by the tens of thousands.

Number pooling NOW!

#AreaCode news today (2025-03-26):

1. California now has 41 area codes, up from 39 two months ago

2. date announced for 465 overlay on 718 & 347 & 929 & (part of) 917 = NYC: Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Isl, plus Marble Hill/Manhattan (2026-06-18)

IS IT A COINCIDENCE?
(Yes, it is)

#telnum

I canceled my subscription to the @WashingtonPost.com today, and selected “concerns about Washington Post content” as my reason for canceling.

Democracy dies in Darkness, and the Washington Post has declared its allegiance to Darkness.

Another bit of #AreaCode news: eastern #Québec’s 418 & 581 & 367 (Québec City, Gaspé Peninsula) will add 273 in just under two years (2027-02-27), becoming the province’s first quadruple overlay.

* new code and effective date proposed, pending regulatory approval

#telnum

@msnbc.com Yet another YouTube channel: “Receitas na hora certa” (ReceitasNaHoraCerta6677) Fourteen videos in the last 24 hours, 9 of them apparently pirated from MSNBC. Looks like a cooking channel may have been hijacked by pirates.

As of today (2/24/25), all calls in northern #Louisiana’s #AreaCode 318 can be dialed with the area code, in preparation for September’s 318 & 457 overlay.

You have 6 months to get used to 10-digit dialing, mandatory as of 8/25/25.

#telnum

Today, #California officially activates its FORTIETH telephone #AreaCode, 837 overlaying 530 in northeastern California (Davis, Tahoe, Redding, Chico, Lassen, etc)

… but #41 is coming to Fresno in less than two months.

#telnum

I was just watching a seal 🦭 rescue video (Ocean Conservation Namibia 🇳🇦 ), & they put a Latin phrase in the subtitles:

Vivamus auctor id justor eu ultrices.

Google Translate insists that it’s something to do with basketball 🏀 or football (presumably ⚽️ rather than 🏈)

Correct translation, anyone?

JUST IN TIME!

California is adding an overlay to #telnum #AreaCode 530 later this week, not a moment too soon. Out of nearly 800 possible prefixes, they’re down to just 11 available.

Coming up this week in #TelNum news: NE #California (Redding, Davis, Truckee, Lassen) #AreaCode 530 gets 837 overlay.

#NYC boroughs prepare for yet another overlay code (details TBA). #Fox5NY had the misleading headline “NYC is getting rid of these area codes” 🙈🤥 fox5ny.com/news/new-area-code

In #Hegseth confirmation, questions mostly on abusing women & alcohol.

We already know Trumpublicans have no problem embracing that.

My question: “#SecDef oversees 2.9M people, uniformed, civilian, & national guard. What SPECIFIC experience best prepared you to lead an organization that size?”

@msnbc.com There is another YouTube channel (DogaArt) posting what appears to be pirated MSNBC content.

Oddly, they often seem to truncate the video and add about 15 minutes of close-ups of someone’s hands doing some sort of craft project. They also tend to have 🅼🆂🅽🅱️🅲 in the video titles.

As of today, #Houston officially has 5 #AreaCodes (713, 281, 832, 346, and 621)— but you won’t see any 621 numbers just yet (other than the test number 621-621-1621), because there are still more than a hundred unused prefixes in 346.

The only other quintuplets are Atlanta, Alberta & BC.
#telnum

I am now dark on Facebook, Instagram, and Twittex, at least for the next week.

I was planning to do it before the recoronation, but I wanted to download my data first, and that took quite a while.

I would love to see the “active user” numbers for those platforms, along with the data downloaded.

A bit of meaningless nerd trivia for you…

If you look at a list of new North American (country code +1) area codes that have been announced but not yet taken effect, and sort them numerically, the first three entries are

257
357
457

#telnum #NANPA #NPA

BLUESKY PRO TIP: your “name” should not be the same as your handle. For example, if your handle is johndoe and your name is johndoe•bluesky•social, a search for “John Doe” will not find you, because “John Doe” doesn’t match “johndoe”

(I’ve been migrating from Brand-X™ and found multiple examples.)

#Telnum The state of #Maine207 just consolidated 135 rate centers into 1, in a move to postpone the dreaded #AreaCodeOverlay. Those 135 run from the southwest tip to the northeast tip, including most major cities and towns (Bangor, Augusta, Portland, and many more)
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