As the state gets ready to add a new area code, telephone customers in parts of Lampasas and Bell counties will be required to dial 10 digits for all local calls starting today. Central Texas ...

AUSTIN -- The three numbers representing Austin had a good run. For more than 60 years, the greater Austin area often went by its area code of 512. Now, Austin's growth is giving it some competition.

It's all but official: 10-digit dialing for local calls is coming to Central Texas next year. The state's Public Utility Commission on Wednesday directed staffers to draft an order creating a second ...

Any new phone numbers could begin with 737 instead of the old, familiar 512. State regulators expect to run out of 512 numbers by the end of the year. Ten-digit dialing took effect June 1 to help ...

Beginning Saturday, calling anyone in the 512 area code, even within the same area, will require dialing the entire number. That affects residents in 19 Central Texas counties where a new area code, ...

512 area code 2-1-0 may today be synonymous with the Alamo City, but that wasn’t always the case. Beginning in October 1947, San Antonio (as well as Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Harlingen and McAllen) ...

If you’re not using speed dial, it may soon be time to start. Whether you consider it progress or growth pains, San Antonio is set to gain another area code in less than 18 months, forcing telephone ...