Area Code 208

The State of Idaho is ranked as forty third state of United States which was declared on 3rd July 1890. Boise -- Capital of the State is one of the heavily populated areas located in the state of Idaho.

The only area code serving the State of Idaho is area code 208. Idaho has low population rate and so the only code 208 serves all areas located in Idaho quite efficiently.

It was predicted that the area served by the 208 area code would be reaching the exhausted state in 2003. Available phone numbers could come to an end. The prediction was raised by the Federal Communications Commission in 2001. However in 2002 the Idaho Public Utilities Commission was able to effectively postpone a split by introducing number pooling in the Boise area. Thereafter code 208 is still serving all areas located within the Idaho State.

Number pooling was introduced across the State to delay another estimated exhaustion in 2010. The scheme was introduced in 2007. Number pooling is a technique of reallocating telephony numbering space in the North American Numbering Plan. The technique particularly is implemented to the areas where there are chances for area to be exhausted in near future.

Right now there is no plan of splitting or overlaying the areas served by area code 208. The time zone followed by areas reserved by the 208 area code is Mountain Time Zone.

Area codes located with the boundary of code 208 are:

• West: Code 541, Code 509
• North: Overlaid area codes 250/778, Code 406
• East: Code 307, Code 406
• South: Code 435, Code 775

Counties in Area Code 208:

ADA ADAMS BANNOCK BEAR LAKE BENEWAH BINGHAM BLAINE BOISE BONNER BONNEVILLE BOUNDARY BUTTE CAMAS CANYON CARIBOU CASSIA CLARK CLEARWATER CUSTER ELMORE FRANKLIN FREMONT GEM GOODING IDAHO

JEFFERSON JEROME KOOTENAI LATAH LEMHI LEWIS LINCOLN MADISON MALHEUR MINIDOKA MISSOULA MULTNOMAH NEZ PERCE ONEIDA OWYHEE PAYETTE POWER SHOSHONE SPOKANE TETON TWIN FALLS VALLEY WASHINGTON WHITMAN

Cities in Area Code 208:

Arbon Arco Ashton Atlanta Bancroft Bayview Blackfoot Bliss Bluebell Boise Boise River Bonners Ferry Bovill Bruneau Buhl Burley Caldwell Cambridge Carey Cascade Castleford Challis Clark Fork Clayton Coeur D'alene Cora Cottonwood Council Craigmont Cuprum Dayton Deary Declo Dietrich Donnelly Downey Driggs Dubois Eagle Eden Elba Elk Bend Elk City Emmett Evergreen Fairfield Filer Firth Franklin Freedom Fruitland Garden Valley Genesee Glenns Ferry Gooding Grace Grand View Grangeville Grasmere Hagerman Hailey Hamer Harrison Hayden Lake

Hazelton Holbrook Hollister Homedale Hope Horseshoe Bend Howe Idaho City Idaho Falls Indian Valley Inkom Irwin Island Park Jerome Juliaetta Kamiah Kellogg Kendrick Ketchum Kilgore Kimberly Kooskia Kuna Lakeview Lapwai Lava Hot Springs Leadore Lenore Leon Lewiston Lewisville Lowman Mackay Malad City Malta Marsing May Mccall Mccammon Melba Meridian Middleton Midvale Minidoka Monteview Montpelier Moore Moscow Mountain Home Mullan Murtaugh Nampa New Meadows New Plymouth Nezperce Norland North Fork Nu Acres Oakley Orofino Paris Parma Paul Payette

Peck Pierce Pinehurst Plummer Pocatello Post Falls Potlatch Powell Campground Prairie Preston Priest Lake Priest River Raft River Rathdrum Rexburg Richfield Rigby Riggins Ririe Riverside Roberts Rock Creek Rockland Rupert Salmon Sandpoint Setters Shelley Shoshone Shoup Soda Springs South Mountain Spirit Lake Springfield St Anthony St Maries Stanley Star Sun Valley Swan Valley Sweet Terreton Teton Tetonia Thatcher Three Creek Tipanuk Troy Twin Falls Tygee Valley Victor Wallace Warm Lake Warren Wayan Weippe Weiser Wellesley Wendell White Bird Wilder Yellow Pine

Leading institutions in Area Code 208:

Some of the leading educational institutions serving the area of code 208 are:

• Boise State University (Ph: 208-3851156)
• Earthnet Institute (Ph: 208-6944736)
• George Fox University (Ph: 208-3753900)
• Idaho State University (Ph: 208-2342353)
• Kennedy Western University (Ph: 208-3755402)

ISPs for the 208 area code:

Some of the ISPs offering dialup and dedicated services for the people living in areas reserved for code 208 are:

• A $7.50 Access
• A 007 Access
• A 1 Excel Internet
• Acer Access
• Amerilinx Inc.
• B on the Web
• Bbe Computers
• Black Labs
• Clearhill Internet Access
• Cognigen
• Cros.net, Inc.

Telecom Companies and Telephone Providers for code 208:

Main carriers and telephone providers serving various areas located in the 208 area code are:

• ALLTEL COMMUNICATIONS OF THE SOUTHWEST, LP - AZ
• BELLSOUTH TELECOMM INC DBA SOUTH CENTRAL BELL TEL
• CELLCO PARTNERSHIP DBA VERIZON WIRELESS - AZ
• CELLCO PARTNERSHIP DBA VERIZON WIRELESS - CA
• GLOBAL CROSSING LOCAL SERVICES, INC.-AZ
• LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC - AZ
• NETWORK SERVICES LLC
• NEW CINGULAR WIRELESS PCS, LLC
• O1 COMMUNICATIONS, INC. - CA
• PAC - WEST TELECOMM, INC.
• PACIFIC BELL
• QWEST CORPORATION
• SOUTHWESTERN BELL
• SPRINT SPECTRUM L.P.
• TW TELECOM OF CALIFORNIA LP - CA
• USA MOBILITY WIRELESS, INC.
• VERIZON CALIFORNIA INC.-CA (GTE)

Reverse Phone Check for the area code 208:

You might have noticed while surfing the internet for reverse phone directories that majority of the reverse directories ask you to pay a membership fee. Once you get paid membership with any of the well reputed reverse lookup directories you would get unlimited reverse searches for mobile phone numbers and land lines. Majority of the reverse search directories provide the services for whole life span.

If the number to be searched is accompanied with a three-digit code, the 208 area code then you can run reverse phone lookup through a reverse phone directory particularly maintained for the phone numbers assigned to areas located in the 208 area code. Just key in the phone number into the provided search box along with area code, click on the search button and get the details on the phone number you have just typed.

Don?t forget to enter exact area code 208 while entering the phone number registered with Idaho, otherwise you can have unrefined and improper information. Areas are differentiated by codes assigned to them. This is why area code never repeats -- areas are always assigned with unique code.