The San Fernando Valley got an additional area code on Saturday, and it changed the way numbers must be dialed. The state utilities commission approved the new area code in 2008, saying the vallley ...

Facing a dwindling number of available phone numbers for a growing number of San Fernando Valley residents, California officials began holding a series of public hearings Monday on how to introduce a ...

Look out 818, here comes the 747. The telephone area code that has defined the San Fernando Valley for two decades is running out, and a new one may be approved as early as next week. A recent ...

State utility officials voted Thursday to overlay a new area code in the San Fernando Valley -- an action that follows a decade of emotional debate and effectively ends the Valley’s longtime ...

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, Calif. Beginning May 18, new phone lines and services in the 818 area code which covers the San Fernando Valley, will be given the new 747 area code. But starting at 12:01 a.m.

California regulators are considering adding a new area code in Southern California as early as 2009 and could do the same in the Bay Area soon after that – starting with the 408 area code. Based on ...