Maine’s 207 Area Code is Here to Stay For Quite Some Time

We Mainers are very set in our ways. In most cases, we don't like change, especially with things we've known all our lives, like the state's telephone area code, which has been in place since 1947 as the state's only area code.

11 States Have Only One Area Code

11 states have only one area code, typically due to a smaller population than most states. Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont all have only one area code. Here are the other 8:

Alaska (907), Delaware (302), Hawaii (808), Idaho (208), Montana (406), North Dakota (701), South Dakota (605), and Wyoming (307).

Why Would They Add More Area Codes to Maine?

Times have changed, and rather than living in households with one corded phone, every family member has their own smartphone. More phones mean more numbers need to be used, and the fear has been that we would run out of numbers. That would require another area code.

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Numbers Forecast

The Maine Public Utilities Commission has fought to keep Maine's 207 area code, and according to News Center Maine, the Maine PCU managed to convince the North American Numbering Plan Administrator to keep the 207 area code as its only area code.

The NANPA forecasts of when Maine would run out of numbers gave several predictions of when the 207 numbers would be all used up. First it was 2025, then 2033, then 2036. Their latest prediction says the 207 numbers will run out in 2045. So we've got at least another 20 years' worth of numbers for the 207. And all is good in the Pine Tree State.