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 ...

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) -- Time is running out on the 415 area code and so are available 415 numbers, especially if you live in Marin County. As of February 1, the new 628 area code 'overlay' goes into ...

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" ...

Beginning as early as March 2015, anyone getting a new phone number in Marin or San Francisco will be issued a new area code: 628. The California Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously Thursday ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- If your area code is 415, big changes are in store for you this year. State officials have approved a new calling procedure for most and a new area code for others. Starting ...

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 ...

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 ...

It doesn’t seem that it should have to be this way, but the powers that be are telling us it’s time to start limbering up our fingers. Beginning Saturday, they want us to start adding a 1, and the ...

In the modern era, where phone numbers are portable and geography is less tied to a person’s culture, area codes still hold a surprising amount of social weight. While the seven digits following an ...