New Area Code For Idaho
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (189793)
Boise, Idaho
May 2, 2017 6:39pm CST
Superimposed over our state soon will be a new area code. It is 986. We have had only one area code(208)since 1947.
Because cell phones have overgrown the amount of numbers the region has. As soon as all the 208 numbers are exhausted they will start giving out numbers with the 986 area code attached.
So, by the time I finally get my cell phone it will probably have a 986 code while my daughter's cell and our landline is still 208.
Weird. We live in the same household.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
3 May 17
Oh cool some states have a lot of different area codes.
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
3 May 17
Used to be only one and I knew them all. Telephone operator you know.
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
3 May 17
@TiarasOceanView .....No, not hardly. But I enjoyed the job a lot.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
6 May 17
That would be pretty weird. Here in Michigan they've added more area codes through the years, but
I think there have been more than one for the state for a long time already. Growing up our area used to be 517 and then twenty-thirty years ago it changed to 989, but certain areas still kept the 517. When they decide to add more they usually just change a city or group of cities, they don't allow different area codes in each city. Course, if someone lives in one place and moves, their cell keeps the old number even if they're living in a different area. But that can happen between one state and the next too, where some who gets their cell in say Ohio keeps the number even if they've moved to Michigan.
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
6 May 17
It's weird. Doesn't sound like they are added them very fast. Sure didn't here.
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
7 May 17
@MarshaMusselman .......But, that would take time and a lot of rerouting now after the system they have going.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
6 May 17
@celticeagle I can see them needing to make the change, but it would make more sense if they outright changed a whole area whether the numbers were new or old and had everyone there use the same newer codes.
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@sissy15 (12512)
• United States
4 May 17
They did this to us a couple years back you learn to get used to it. My cell phone area code is different from most of my families. I have the new one. It's just part of life. For the longest time, my doctor's office kept messing up my number thinking that the area code was the first three numbers after the area code. I had to keep correcting them. It was incredibly annoying.
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@sissy15 (12512)
• United States
5 May 17
@celticeagle I'm not sure how many Ohio has now. I know we have 2 just for my area currently. Yeah, I was surprised when they started giving us a second area code. Now they mostly give the new area code to cell phone users and the main area code is for landlines.
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
4 May 17
I starting out my working career as a long distance telephone operator. I remember when each state had only one area code. I knew them all. I know how confusing it can be and am used to all of that. It has just been a long time coming here.
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
6 May 17
when that sort of thing happens, it does take some getting used too
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
6 May 17
Yes, it does. Hope there is no problem in dialing the numbers we usually use.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
9 May 17
@celticeagle some of them now may be long distance, if that is still a thing with phones, for my cell nothing is, so I dont know
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
3 May 17
Here our area codes are divided by regions. They needed to divide up the 414 area code many years ago as it went from Milwaukee to Green Bay. Now our area code is 920 from around where my sister lives about an hour from here up to Green Bay. Basically the eastern side of Wisconsin along Lake Michigan.
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
3 May 17
I think some of the set ups in some states is sort of weird. Hope it works for them and us here.
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
3 May 17
I have to on some numbers here already.
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@FourWalls (86575)
• United States
3 May 17
I'm surprised they haven't made phone numbers longer. I think they're at the length people can remember, though, and if they were any longer we couldn't remember them.
Not that I remember my cell phone number anyway....I never call myself. 
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
3 May 17
Any longer and the out of country codes could become very confusing.
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@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
4 May 17
We have 2 area codes in Broward county alone and with cell phones area codes don't mean a thing anymore!! 
@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
3 May 17
It is happening here too, not enough numbers to service all the pones in use.
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
3 May 17
It is so weird. I was born four years after we received this one and now I am 65 and soon to have another one.
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