For years, telephone industry representatives have said the proliferation of cell phones, pagers and fax machines would one day overrun the capacity of the 847 area code. But for years, customer ...

Callers’ dialing habits will change in January when another new area code–224–arrives in Chicago’s northern suburbs. The overlay area code will supplement the existing 847 code, which means dialing ...

Students returning to campus for Winter Quarter were greeted with an important change to their phone service: four extra digits are now required to make off-campus calls, even if the calls are made ...