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Ten-digit dialing for local calls will be required in all of Virginia after the FCC adopted 988 as a new three-digit number as a suicide prevention hotline. (Shutterstock)
VIRGINIA Dialing 10 digits to make local calls in Northern Virginia is nothing new. Residents have been doing it for two decades. But some parts of the state can still make local calls without using an area code. That s about to change.
Back in the late 1990s, the rapidly growing demand for new phones caused not only by population and business growth but also by greater use of cell phones led to the switch to 10-digit dialing in Northern Virginia and other parts of the state for local calls.