Lucio Vasquez / Houston Public Media
Houston can be receiving every other area code, the Public Utility Commission of Texas introduced on Wednesday.
The 621 area code, which can be created to briefly accommodate town’s booming inhabitants enlargement, is not going to have an effect on present telephone numbers.
The area is anticipated to run out of latest telephone numbers beginning with the present area codes by 2025, in accordance to the fee. Houston already has 4 area codes, 621 would be the fifth.
“Once telecommunications carriers have exhausted all telephone numbers with the current 281/346/713/832 area codes, new numbers will be assigned the new area code 621,” in accordance to the fee. “This new code is expected to meet numbering needs for an additional nine years.”
Houston’s first area code, 713, used to be created in 1947, and different area codes got here alongside within the Nineties. The town gained its newest area code, 346, in 2013.
“Houston— and all of Texas— continues to grow because our state offers freedom and opportunity that cannot be found anywhere else in the world,” Governor Greg Abbott stated in a observation. “This new phone area code is a testament to the economic strength and quality of life in the greater Houston area.”
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