On Wednesday 21-July-2010, I wrote in "PA-PUC Approves Overlay to 570 Area Code":
The Pennsylvania-PUC has unanimously approved (5-0) an OVERLAY for the
> 570 area code region in north-central and north-eastern Pennsylvania.
> The PA-PUC had actually approved the overlay last week, on Thursday
> 15-July-2010. There is a Press Release at the PA-PUC's website:
>
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and there are media reports at various local area radio/TV/newspaper > websites.
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> The PA-PUC's press release indicates that the new overlay area code
> will be needed by 3-Q/2011, and hopes that the telco industry will
> have the overlay implemented by 01-March-2011. At present, 7-digit
> dialing is still possible for local intra-570 calls, so there will
> have to be what is probably going to be an expedited transition to
> mandatory ten-digit intra-570 local dialing.
>
> [ ... ]
>
> The new area code digits are NOT indicated at this current PA-PUC
> press release of Thursday 15-July-2010 ...
>
> ... but my *GUESS* is that 272 will be the new overlay area code.
Today, Friday 30-July-2010, the PA-PUC is now reporting that 272 is indeed going to be the overlay relief area code for the existing 570 area code.
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Radio/TV/Newspaper/etc. media/press/news websites are also now reporting
272 as the relief overlay area code, per the PA-PUC announcement.
NeuStar-NANPA's "Planned NPAs Not Yet in Service" webpage,
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indicates 272 as the forthcoming overlay to 570 in Pennsylvania. Actually, the page at NANPA's website was referencing 272 for 570 since last week, as early as Wednesday 21-July-2010 (maybe even earlier?), but it was only today that the PA-PUC and subsequently the press/media (radio/TV/newspapers/etc) first publicly announced that 272 is to be the new area code.
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> The other two area codes in Pennsylvania (both dating back to the
> official "origins" of the NANP/Area Code Format of October 1947),
> have also had area code "relief" planning by the telco industry and
> regulatory. 814 for northwestern PA and western south-central PA, and
> also 717 which is still retained by eastern south-central PA following
> the 717/570 split of 1998/99 -- both have relief petitions pending
> before the PA-PUC, overlays area requested in both cases by the telcos.
> No indication of when the PA-PUC will make any kind of announcements
> as to split vs. overlay (overlays are likely), and obviously not the
> codes themselves, but my *GUESS* is for:
>
> 582 as the relief code for 814,
> and 223 to overlay 717.
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I expect that NeuStar-NANPA and/or the PA-PUC will announce the actual
> code digits for the overlay to 570, within another several weeks, and
> as mentioned above, my *GUESS* is that 272 will be the overlay. Also,
> I tend to think that the PA-PUC will be making their split vs. overlay
> decisions and subsequent announcements on 814 and 717 later this year, > in Fall 2010.
Well, NANPA was reflecting 272 on the "Planned NPAs Not Yet in Service" webpage since as early as Wednesday 21-July-2010, and now (today, Friday
30-July-2010) it is being announced by the PA-PUC and news/press/media sources as well.Mark J. Cuccia markjcuccia at yahoo dot com Lafayette LA, formerly of New Orleans LA pre-Katrina