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Area codes 208 and 986 are the area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for all of Idaho. Area code 208 is one of the 86 original area codes created by AT&T in 1947. It was Idaho's sole area code until 2017, when 986 was added as an overlay plan for the entire state.

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  • Area codes 208 and 986 are the area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for all of Idaho. Area code 208 is one of the 86 original area codes created by AT&T in 1947. It was Idaho's sole area code until 2017, when 986 was added as an overlay plan for the entire state. Because of its small population, Idaho was among a declining number of North American jurisdictions with only one area code. 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). Additionally, the Spokane, Washington LATA spills into central Idaho. In 2001, the Federal Communications Commission projected that demand would exhaust the numbering pool of area code 208 in 2003. The number shortage was a result of the proliferation of landlines, cellphones, and pagers, particularly in urban areas, in the 1990s. 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. In the summer of 2013, NANPA projections suggested exhaustion in 2018. By this time all conservation measures had been exhausted. With Idaho's population growing closer to two million, a second area code became necessary; eleven other states with single area codes all have populations of about one million each. Ultimately, a statewide overlay was recommended. This would have had the effect of assigning 15.6 million numbers to a state of just over 1.7 million people. However, the Idaho PUC wanted to spare Idahoans, particularly in rural areas, the expense and burden of having to change their numbers. An area code split would have also required en masse reprogramming of cell phones. In the overlay plan, subscribers with numbers in the original area code can keep it. On November 2, 2015, the Idaho PUC approved the addition of area code 986 as a statewide overlay. 986 officially entered service on November 5, 2016. On that date, a permissive dialing period began during which it was possible to make calls with either seven or ten digits (the latter with the area code first). Ten-digit dialing became mandatory across Idaho on August 5, 2017; failure to dial the area code caused an intercept message as reminder. 986 is the second statewide overlay, following the example of area codes 304 and 681 in West Virginia. (en)
  • L'indicatif régional 208 est l'indicatif téléphonique régional qui dessert l'État de l'Idaho aux États-Unis. L'indicatif couvre l'ensemble de l'État. L'indicatif régional 208 fait partie du Plan de numérotation nord-américain. (fr)
  • 电话区号208是北美电话区号计划中覆盖爱达荷州的电话区号。由于人口较少，爱达荷州是仅存不多的几个只有一个电话区号的行政区域。这也是仅有的几个全州多个话务区共享同一区号的州。 2001年，联邦通信委员会预测208区号将在2003年枯竭。由于多个话务区的架构，蒙大拿州区号406、怀俄明州、北内华达州、东俄勒冈州以及东华盛顿州的一些号码不能使用。但是2002年，爱达荷州公共设施委员会通过在博伊西启用号码池，成功避免了拆分区号。在2007年，爱达荷州全州开始启用号码池，进一步推迟需要拆分区号的时间。 根据目前的预测，208区号将在2018年耗尽，到时候爱达荷州将需要第二个电话区号。该州人口数已接近两百万，其他使用单一区号的州都只有大概一百万人口。可能采取的手段是重叠电话区号。 2015年11月2日，爱达荷公共设施委员会批准了重叠区号986，自2017年8月5日开始必须十位拨号。这将成为自西弗吉尼亚州后第二个全州范围的重叠区号。 (zh)
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  • L'indicatif régional 208 est l'indicatif téléphonique régional qui dessert l'État de l'Idaho aux États-Unis. L'indicatif couvre l'ensemble de l'État. L'indicatif régional 208 fait partie du Plan de numérotation nord-américain. (fr)
  • 电话区号208是北美电话区号计划中覆盖爱达荷州的电话区号。由于人口较少，爱达荷州是仅存不多的几个只有一个电话区号的行政区域。这也是仅有的几个全州多个话务区共享同一区号的州。 2001年，联邦通信委员会预测208区号将在2003年枯竭。由于多个话务区的架构，蒙大拿州区号406、怀俄明州、北内华达州、东俄勒冈州以及东华盛顿州的一些号码不能使用。但是2002年，爱达荷州公共设施委员会通过在博伊西启用号码池，成功避免了拆分区号。在2007年，爱达荷州全州开始启用号码池，进一步推迟需要拆分区号的时间。 根据目前的预测，208区号将在2018年耗尽，到时候爱达荷州将需要第二个电话区号。该州人口数已接近两百万，其他使用单一区号的州都只有大概一百万人口。可能采取的手段是重叠电话区号。 2015年11月2日，爱达荷公共设施委员会批准了重叠区号986，自2017年8月5日开始必须十位拨号。这将成为自西弗吉尼亚州后第二个全州范围的重叠区号。 (zh)
  • Area codes 208 and 986 are the area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for all of Idaho. Area code 208 is one of the 86 original area codes created by AT&T in 1947. It was Idaho's sole area code until 2017, when 986 was added as an overlay plan for the entire state. (en)
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  • Area codes 208 and 986 (en)
  • Indicatif régional 208 (fr)
  • 北美电话区号208和986 (zh)
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