BOISE - Idaho regulators say the state will get a second area code as soon as 2017, which will require 10-digit dialing for the first time throughout the state. The Idaho Public Utilities Commission ...

Idaho’s new area code will live side-by-side with its existing 208 area code as an overlay, requiring 10-digit dialing across the state. Statesman staff The Idaho Public Utilities Commission announced ...

In 2001, the FCC predicted that Idaho’s area code would run out of available numbers in 2003. But in 2002 the state commission ordered Boise-area phone companies to return unused numbers. The ...

BOISE — Idaho used to be just one of 12 states with only one area code. That’s not the case anymore. Early this year, people across the state began receiving the new area code — 986 — which is ...

Idaho regulators say the state will get a second area code as soon as 2017, which will require 10-digit dialing for the first time throughout the state. The Idaho Public Utilities Commission announced ...

BOISE – Idaho will add a second area code – 986 – in late 2017. That news follows the Idaho Public Utilities Commission’s unanimous decision Monday to implement the new area code as a “geographic ...

Idaho's signature 208 area code will soon co-exist with a new three-digit code starting in 2017. The Idaho Public Utilities Commission announced Monday that the state's second area code will be 986.

BOISE -- Changes to the way Idaho residents make calls will start in less than one month. Beginning Aug. 5, callers will have to dial in the entire 10-digit number of the person they are trying to ...

BOISE — Idaho used to be just one of 12 states with only one area code. That’s not the case anymore. Early this year, people across the state began receiving the new area code — 986 — which is ...

BOISE — Idaho's second area code — 986 — was approved by state regulators Monday and will be implemented in late 2017. The original 208 area code issued in 1947 has been the state's only area code ...