Oct. 13—Beginning Oct. 24, 2021, all local calls in Montana must be dialed with the 406 area code to connect. Montana's 406 area code currently allows seven-digit dialing to complete local calls. That ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The looming threat of a second area code in Montana reared its controversial head again at ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. - Montana will remain a one-area code state, for at least for a while. Federal regulators approved a plan to allow a more efficient system for handing out numbers with the 406 area code ...

Don’t look now, but Montana’s 406 area code is scheduled to run out of numbers in five years — meaning our nearly 70-year status as a state with a single area code is coming to an end. Once those 406 ...

HELENA – Don’t look now, but Montana’s 406 area code is scheduled to run out of numbers in five years — meaning our nearly 70-year status as a state with a single area code is coming to an end.

Because Montana’s 406 area code covers the entire state, it has become synonymous with the citizenry, marketing everything from clothing lines to bands to beer.

HELENA – Don’t look now, but Montana’s 406 area code is scheduled to run out of numbers in five years – meaning our nearly 70-year status as a state with a single area code is coming to an end. Once ...

Montana’s 406 area code is rapidly running out of room for new numbers and the state’s Public Service Commission has asked the Federal Communications Commission for an extension on adding a second ...