It's unfair." According to a report released by YouMail, a private telecom company that monitors these numbers, the two DFW area codes hit the hardest are 214 and 817. But what comes in also goes out.

Other Texas area code overlay regions include 512/737 (Austin), 430/903 (Northeastern Texas), 682/817 (western Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex), 214/469/972 (eastern Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex ...

This will be the sixth area code to be put into use in North Texas where area codes 214, 817, 682, 469 and 972 have all been in use for some time. The new area code will encompass the metropolitan ...