Entrepreneur Finds ‘Sizeable Market’ for Custom Phone Numbers in some locales

By Philip Bump The Washington Post - Apr 25, 2015

San Francisco, a city with no shortage of status symbols, has just gained another: the 415 area code. Like New York’s 212 before it, phone companies are mixing a new, dare-we-say ugly area code, 628, in for new numbers. But there’s no need to panic. As with all status symbols in San Francisco and elsewhere, a 415 number can be yours, for a price. Ed Mance operates PhoneNumberGuy.com from the city. He started the company when he was...