If you have a D.C. phone number, you may want to hold on to it. Phone numbers with the 202 area code are expected to run out as early as 2023, according to the company that administers area codes ...

WASHINGTON — QUESTION: If a new area code is put in place for a city, does that mean you have to change your current phone number or will lose it if it has the old area code? ANSWER: You do not need ...

Hold onto your 202 hoodies and T-shirts: There’s a new area code in town. Well, in a few years there will be. DC will add the area code 771 to local numbers by the end of 2022, according to the DC ...

The area code 202 is synonymous with D.C. — it’s been the District’s sole area code for more than 70 years. But come 2022, when new phone numbers are forecast to run out, there’ll be a new three-digit ...

The countdown is finally here: No, we’re not talking about season three of the Crown, a certain first Tuesday of November, or even the end of the year 2020. We’re talking about the countdown toward ...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser described 202 for Peace as a “summerlong, citywide gun violence awareness campaign.” (WTOP/Kristi King) How do you get people to put down guns to end violence and killings?

Okay, Washington. What do we think? The city is running out of 202 telephone numbers. On Tuesday it was announced that the new, additional area code for the city will be 771. Good number? Bad number?