By this time all conservation measures had been exhausted. In the summer of 2013, NANPA projections suggested exhaustion in 2018. However, in 2002 the Idaho Public Utilities Commission (IPUC) successfully delayed a split by implementing number pooling in Boise this was later applied in 2007 to the rest of Idaho to stave off projected exhaustion in 2010. The number shortage was a result of the proliferation of landlines, cellphones, and pagers, particularly in urban areas, in the 1990s. In 2001, the Federal Communications Commission projected that demand would exhaust the numbering pool of area code 208 in 2003. Additionally, the Spokane, Washington LATA spills into central Idaho. It is also one of the few whole-state area codes split between multiple LATAs-Southern Idaho (centered in Boise and spilling into Nevada, Wyoming and Malheur County, Oregon) and Coeur d'Alene (spilling into Montana and Washington). It was Idaho's sole area code until 2017, when 986 was added as an overlay plan for the entire state.īecause of its small population, Idaho was among a declining number of North American jurisdictions with only one area code. Area code 208 is one of the 86 original area codes created by AT&T in 1947. Area codes 208 and 986 are the area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for all of Idaho.
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