​943 Area Code To Come Online For New Metro Atlanta Phone Numbers

ATLANTA, GA — A new area code is coming to the Metro Atlanta area.

Beginning on March 15, rea codes 404, 770, 678, and 470 will be joined by 943, Georgia Public Service Commission officials said. PSC officials credit the rapid activation of mobile phones in the area, a generational change from the 1980s and 1990s when households typically had only a single land-line telephone number.

“With new telephone numbers in the greater Atlanta area in high demand, the Georgia Public Service Commission approved the implementation of the new 943 area code to overlay the existing … region,” a statement said.

The 943 area code will come online for new phone numbers assigned in locations including Atlanta, Alpharetta, Duluth, Dunwoody, East Point, Forest Park, Gainesville, Griffin, Lawrenceville, Mableton, Marietta, Peachtree City, Roswell, Sandy
Springs, Smyrna, and Tucker, among others.

The PSC reported in late 2020 that the North American Numbering Plan Administration predicted as early as April of that year that phone numbers available with existing metro area codes were quickly running out.

“Right now the (area) codes will be exhausted by the end of the second quarter of 2023,” PSC telecom analyst Erica Wilson told commission members in an Oct. 1, 2020 meeting.

This is the first time since 2012 that an area code was added to the metropolitan area. That year, 470 was added to the area after NANPA determined the need for a new area code. By mid-October of 2012, the 404 and 678 area codes were all used up, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

PSC officials remind users that dialing will continue to use 10 digits, including the area code, and the new area code still won’t affect dialing standard three-digit numbers like 911, 511 or 411.