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. Q: Why are these new area codes necessary? A: Minnesota is running out of telephone numbers in the region served by the 612 area code due to unprecedented demand for new numbers for services such as fax machines, pagers, wireless telephones, additional telephone lines and other competitive services. Q. Who will have the new area codes? A. Effective February 27,2000, the region served by the 612 area code will be split into three different area codes: 612, 763 and 952. The 612 area code will be kept by Minneapolis, Richfield, St. Anthony and the Fort Snelling area. The boundary line separating the 763 area code from the 952 area code approximately follows Interstate 394. For the most part, communities located north of 1-394 and to the north and northwest of Minneapolis will be served by the 763 area code. Communities south of 1-394 and to the south and southwest of Minneapolis will have the 952 area code. . The 763 area code will serve Blaine, Brooklyn Center, Circle Pines, Columbia Heights, Delano, East Bethel, Fridley, Golden Valley, Ham Lake, Isanti, Lexington, Medicine Lake, Medina, Montrose, Mounds View, Plymouth, Robbinsdale, Waverly and other communities to the north and northwest. The 952 area code will serve Apple Valley, Bloomington, Burnsville, Eden Prairie, Edina, Hopkins, Lakeville, Minnetrista, Minnetonka, Mound, (kono, St. Louis Park, Watertown, Wayzata and other communities to the soutt and southwest. Q. When will this change take place? A. The area code change will be effective on February 27,2000. During a transition period that will last over ten months, you will be able to use either the new 0 old area code and local dialing pattern to complete a call. Mandatory use of the new area codes and ten-digit dialing for local calls between area codes will begin on Januar 14,2001. Ten-digit local dialing between area codes . Q. How does this change the way I make local calls? Your local calling area is not changing. If a call was a local call before this ~ rea code change, it is still a local call. If a call was long distance before, it is still a lor g distance call. However, to make a local phone call between area codes you will net d to dial ten digits (the three-digit area code plus the seven-digit phone number). You may be familiar with this ten-digit dialing pattern since it is the same way local calls re made today between the 612 and 651 area codes. Do not dial a "1" or a "0" be ore the ten- digit local number. Mandatory use of ten-digit dialing for local calls betwe n area codes begins on January 14, 2001