San Antonio Obtains A New Area Code

(San Antonio, TX)  —  The San Antonio metropolitan area now has a new area code. The 7-2-6 area code went into effect Monday, marking the city’s first area code change since breaking away from 5-1-2 in the late 1980s. The Public Utility Commission emphasizes that nothing about your existing number, whether it is a land line, a cell phone, an office phone, or even a fax machine, will change. While previous area code additions have been geographically based, 7-2-6 is an overlay. That means it will be assigned to new cell phones and land lines, but existing phone numbers with a 2-1-0 area code will not change.