SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Dialing phone numbers in the Bay Area is about to get complicated, and longtime "415" area code fans are not happy about it. Starting Saturday, the new 628 area code 'overlay ...

Marin residents have mixed ideas on how to handle a shortage of phone numbers in the 415 area code, but they all agree it’s going to be a hassle moving forward. “I’m alarmed there haven’t been fixes ...

Eight-million phone numbers aren’t enough. San Francisco wants more, more, more. And so the once-mighty 415 area code, which six decades ago stretched from the middle of California to the Oregon ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- With 415 area code phone numbers in short supply, at least one company is capitalizing on high demand by selling them for thousands of dollars. Ed Mance runs the ...

The days of 415 are numbered. Starting in 13 months, new phone numbers issued in San Francisco and Marin County will no longer begin with those three familiar digits. Instead, they'll carry a new area ...

As the 415 area code has been overlaid into a new area code of 628, one man has been selling increasingly coveted numbers. A San Francisco company called Phone Number Guy sells "vanity phone numbers" ...

THE STATE says we are running out of prefixes and we need a new area code. The California Public Utilities Commission wants to add a new 628 area code to the region that’s now 415. Regulators can ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) -- New phone dialing procedures caused some confusion over the weekend for a few dozen people who called 911 because their phone lines would not connect to others with a 415 area ...

The California Public Utilities Commission approved the new area code Thursday as part of an "overlay" plan for the same geographic region as the existing "415" area code. New telephone numbers will ...

Two alternatives for adding a new telephone area code to the 415 region were presented Thursday to more than 40 people at an afternoon meeting in San Rafael. Maps of Marin and San Francisco counties ...