With the state’s population continuing to grow and cell phones and other technology requiring new numbers, South Florida could get another area code.

With the state’s population continuing to grow and cell phones and other technology requiring new numbers, South Florida could get another area code.

State regulators next week will hold a workshop to begin considering a proposal to create an additional area code in Palm Beach County because the 561 area code is in “jeopardy” of running out of numbers, according to a proposal filed Friday by the North American Numbering Plan Administrator, an agency that oversees area codes.

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