The North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) informed the Kentucky Public Service Commission (PSC) on Tuesday that residents in the 502 area code region will soon be seeing a second area code, 761, which will likely begin to be assigned in 2027.

NANPA estimated that the 502 area code, serving north-central Kentucky, will exhaust its supply of available telephone numbers. Once new phone numbers for the 502 area code have been exhausted, new customers will be assigned a 761 area code, while the 502 area code will continue to remain in use.

Anyone currently using the 502 area code will not see changes to their phone numbers or area codes. The only difference for customers within the 502/761 area code is that they will need to utilize ten-digit dialing, dialing the area code, whe

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