Eight-million phone numbers aren’t enough. San Francisco wants more, more, more. And so the once-mighty 415 area code, which six decades ago stretched from the middle of California to the Oregon ...

Area code 415 is almost closed and when it is, newcomers won't be welcome. The area code that once encompassed all of the Bay Area is filling so fast with San Francisco and Marin County phones, fax ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Time is running out on the 415 area code and so are available 415 numbers, especially if you live in Marin County. As of February 1, the new 628 area code 'overlay' goes into ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- If your area code is 415, big changes are in store for you this year. State officials have approved a new calling procedure for most and a new area code for others. Starting ...

As the 415 area code has been overlaid into a new area code of 628, one man has been selling increasingly coveted numbers. A San Francisco company called Phone Number Guy sells "vanity phone numbers" ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Starting next February, San Francisco and Marin County residents will have to do something they've never done before: dial the numbers 4-1-5 when making a phone call. In ...

Most people know you're a San Franciscan or a Marin County dweller if you give them your telephone prefix of 415. Well, not for everyone, not anymore. Beginning on Saturday, the 415 area code will be ...

Beginning as early as March 2015, anyone getting a new phone number in Marin or San Francisco will be issued a new area code: 628. The California Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously Thursday ...

THE STATE says we are running out of prefixes and we need a new area code. The California Public Utilities Commission wants to add a new 628 area code to the region that’s now 415. Regulators can ...

It doesn’t seem that it should have to be this way, but the powers that be are telling us it’s time to start limbering up our fingers. Beginning Saturday, they want us to start adding a 1, and the ...

Two alternatives for adding a new telephone area code to the 415 region were presented Thursday to more than 40 people at an afternoon meeting in San Rafael. Maps of Marin and San Francisco counties ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- There is some confusion on how the new dialing system works for the 415 area code. It started on Saturday when calling a 415 number is now required. Callers using a land line ...