New area code coming to northeast Wisconsin in May
Northeast Wisconsin will receive a new area code next month as 920 phone numbers are running out. All current customers will keep their existing ph...
Northeast Wisconsin will receive a new area code next month as 920 phone numbers are running out. All current customers will keep their existing phone numbers, and the new 274 area code will be used for to new customers, according to the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, or PSC. Laura Fay, Universal Service and Digital Equity manager for the PSC, said northeast Wisconsin's 920 area code is expected to run out of unassigned prefixes — the three digits after an area code — by next year. "Once all of those are assigned, if we didn't have a new code, providers would be unable to serve their customers," she said.