Posted on December - 13 - 2010
Planned area code split abandoned for Western Kentucky
HENDERSON, Ky. — Your car might not start and the streets might be ice rinks, but here’s one thing you can quit worrying about: We’re not going to have to change our area code to 364.
A few years ago, unused phone numbers were being snapped up so quickly that the Kentucky Public Service Commission set in motion a plan to split western Kentucky into two area codes.
The area that includes Henderson, Madisonville, Hopkinsville and Paducah was initially scheduled to be assigned the new area code 364 in 2008.
Cities such as Owensboro, Bowling Green, Elizabethtown and Glasgow were to keep 270.
But because of declining demand and changes in the process by which new numbers are assigned, implementation of the new area code has been postponed five times. On Monday, the PSC abandoned the plan, saying the latest projections show no need for a new area code until late 2014.
Read more about this in The Gleaner on Tuesday.
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