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New Central Ohio Area Code Means Dialing Ten Digits For Local Calls

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The central Ohio region is running out of phone numbers using the 614 area code, so people who get a new phone number will soon have an all new area code to come with it. Other areas are preparing for a similar change. Ohio Public Radio's Andy Chow Reports.

The area code for any new phone numbers in the central Ohio area will be 380.  
 
The PUCO’s Matt Schilling says the state went with what’s known as an overlay plan where the 380 area code will only be assigned to new numbers, but everyone will have to dial all 10-digits even for local calls. The other plan would’ve assigned a new area code to existing numbers.  
 
“If we were to do a geographic split and people would get new phone numbers imagine a local business would need to update all their marketing information, all their contact information on the web and phonebooks and advertisements and so forth,” said Schilling.  
 
The change goes into effect by the end of next January. Schilling said the 513 area code region, in southwest Ohio, is set to run out of numbers in 2019.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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