Posted
10/30/2007 04:14:00 PM
by Douglas
Enjoy your new area code, losers.
Callers accustomed to New Mexico's single 505 area code now have 12 months to adjust to the state's 575 area code.
Permissive dialing began Oct. 7 for the 575 area code, which includes the eastern, southern and northern part of the state. The 505 area code will still be used in central and northwestern New Mexico.
"There was an exhaustion of the numbers that were able to be issued out of 505," said Danny Mayfield, Chief of Staff of the New Mexico Public Regulation Committee. The 505 numbers were projected to be exhausted in 2009.
It was a bit odd coming from a city that has no fewer than four area codes to a city whose entire state only has one. I guess all those pay phones in the casinos need numbers, too.