Talk:Area codes 602, 480, and 623

Odd sentence
 In some neighborhoods, homes only a few hundred feet away from each other may have different area codes; 602 or 623.

Is this really particulary noteworthy. The dividing line has to be somewhere, so obviously this is true for just about every area code. --Jfruh (talk) 00:42, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Requested move 12 November 2021

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

Area code 602 → Area codes 602, 480, and 623 – This is a combination merger and requested move discussion and will be tagged as a merge from Area code 480 and Area code 623. In November 2021, the Arizona Corporation Commission approved a proposal from the state's telecommunications industry, received as part of relief planning for area code 480, to erase the geographic boundaries between 602, 480, and 623 in 2023 in lieu of the otherwise necessary assignment of two new area codes in three years to this area. While that may seem some distance off, the fact is that improving these three pages on a standalone basis will result immediately in much the same article in triplicate, as the present AC boundaries were created as the result of one three-way split event in 1999. The current pages could stand to have citations improved. Readers will be better served by one improved, well cited article covering these area codes in advance of the 2023 boundary elimination, not the maintenance of three separate pages covering much the same ground. (Area codes 213 and 323 was merged from two prior pages in 2017 after a similar action combined two separate area codes into an overlay complex, so there is precedent for the merger.) Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 05:46, 12 November 2021 (UTC) — Relisting. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 08:26, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support as per nom. 162 etc. (talk) 16:23, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Too soon. Wait for things to take effect, likely in late 2022 or in 2023. 10-digit dialing would also need to be put in place in 602 and 623 first. CrazyC83 (talk) 03:50, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Also it was a commission recommendation. Full approval is expected between now and January. CrazyC83 (talk) 01:55, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I would agree that we can sit on this one for another few weeks until there is greater clarity as to future steps. BD2412  T 06:38, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
 * That's fine. I did go ahead and rewrite 602 anyway. Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 07:06, 5 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Pinging and  because the Planning Letter (PL-576) and timeline have been published, if you would like to reconsider this. At this point, with 602 rewritten, the only items left to be merged would be a mention of Iridium in 480 and 480's conversion last year to 10-digit dialing.  Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 22:18, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I think the thing to do in that case is to initiate a new move request. BD2412  T 22:24, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
 * If you feel it's also too soon, that's fine as well; just wanted to gauge feedback. Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 22:25, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

history of 928

 * The first split in 1995 cleaved off numbers outside of metropolitan Phoenix (now in area codes 520 and 928);

This conflicts with Area code 520 and Area code 928, which say that 520 was created in 1995 and 928 in 2001, each in its present shape. —Tamfang (talk) 21:34, 20 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks . That's just ambiguous wording on my part and I just need to change it. Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 04:50, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

On looking again at those two other articles, I see I was mistaken. —Tamfang (talk) 05:24, 21 February 2023 (UTC)