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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montanans love living in the “406,” but Montana could run out of 406 phone numbers by 2033. It’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.