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million each. Ultimately, a statewide overlay was recommended. This would have had the effect of assigning 15.6 million numbers to a state of just over 1.7 million people. However, the Idaho PUC wanted to spare Idahoans, particularly in rural areas, the expense and burden of having to change their numbers. An area code split would have also required
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In the summer of 2013, NANPA projections suggested exhaustion in 2018. By this time all conservation measures had been exhausted. With Idaho's population growing closer to two million, a second area code became necessary; eleven other states with single area codes all have populations of about one
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On November 2, 2015, the Idaho PUC approved the addition of area code 986 as a statewide overlay. 986 officially entered service on November 5, 2016. On that date, a permissive dialing period began during which it was possible to make calls with either seven or
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projected that demand would exhaust the numbering pool of area code 208 in 2003. The number shortage was a result of the proliferation of landlines, cellphones, and pagers, particularly in urban areas, in the 1990s. However, in 2002 the
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Because of its small population, Idaho was among a declining number of North American jurisdictions with only one area code. It is also one of the few whole-state area codes split between multiple
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reprogramming of cell phones. In the overlay plan, subscribers with numbers in the original area code can keep it.
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in Boise; this was later applied in 2007 to the rest of Idaho to stave off projected exhaustion in 2010.
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Area code 208 is one of the 86 original area codes created by the 695: 684: 94: 82: 30: 736: 721: 78: 598: 301:(208) 209 450 471 481 578 594 622 720 721 725 726 727 788 806 50: 706: 148: 836:"Your Next Idaho Phone Number Might Not Start With 208" 573: 117:(IPUC) successfully delayed a split by implementing 891:. Idaho Public Utilities Commission. 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Index

Area code 208

area codes
North American Numbering Plan
Idaho
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
overlay complex
LATAs
Boise
Nevada
Wyoming
Malheur County, Oregon
Coeur d'Alene
Montana
Washington
Spokane, Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
number pooling
ten digits
area codes 304 and 681
West Virginia
Aberdeen
Albion
American Falls
Arco
Ashton
Blackfoot
Boise
Bonners Ferry

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