To ensure a continuing supply of telephone numbers in our region, a new area code has been added to the area that is presently served by the 714 area code. Get ready to implement a new dialing procedure!
This area code overlay means that the new area code (657) will serve the same geographic region as 714, and includes the communities of Anaheim, Brea, Buena Park, Costa Mesa, Cypress, Fountain Valley, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, La Habra, La Mirada, La Palma, Orange, Placentia, Santa Ana, Westminster, and Yorba Linda. An overlay DOES NOT require customers to change their existing area codes.
WHAT IS THE NEW DIALING PROCEDURE?
To complete calls from a landline phone, the new dialing procedure requires callers to dial 1 + Area Code + Telephone Number. All calls in the 714 area code that are currently dialed with seven digits will now need to be dialed using 10. To complete calls from a cellular phone within the 714 or 657 area codes, callers must likewise dial 1 + Area Code + Telephone Number.
WHEN DOES THE OVERLAY CHANGE TAKE PLACE?
Effective immediately, callers should begin dialing 1 + Area Code + Telephone Number whenever a call is placed. If callers forget and use the old dialing procedure of dialing just Telephone Number, the call will still be completed (until August 23, 2008).
Beginning August 23, 2008, callers must use the new dialing procedure for all calls. After this date, if callers do not use the new dialing procedure, their calls will not be completed, and a recording will instruct them to hang up and dial again.
Beginning September 23, 2008, new telephone lines or services in our area may be assigned numbers with the 657 area code.
WHAT WILL CALLERS NEED TO DO?
In addition to changing the dialing procedure, all services, automatic dialing equipment, or other types of equipment that are programmed with a seven-digit telephone number must be reprogrammed to use the new dialing procedure.
Some examples of devices affected are life safety systems, fax machines, Internet dial-up numbers, alarm and security systems, gates, speed-dial numbers, call forwarding settings, voicemail services, and similar functions. Also, be sure to add the area code to saved contact numbers in your mobile/cellular phones and email clients (i.e. Outlook, Eudora, etc.).
If there are any questions regarding this area code overlay, please access http://www.cpuc
.ca.gov/714areacode.
Adam Brett
RE/MAX NOC
Fullerton,CA
714-496-8116
800-977-ADAM
www.RealtorAdam.com
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