Can you give only cellular phones, faxes, ATM machines, and other non-geographical devises or services the new area code instead?
This form of area code assignment is referred to as a technology-specific overlay. Currently customers changing their service from a landline service to a cellular service may move their telephone number from the landline phone to the cell phone as long as both services are in the same geographic area. Customers may also change their cell phone number to a landline number within the same geographic area. This is called local number portability. Local number portability between landline and wireless services would not be available if technology-specific overlays were implemented.
