Area Code 408
North American area codes 408 and 669 are telephone area codes in California that covers most of Santa Clara County and includes Gilroy, Morgan Hill, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Milpitas, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Cupertino, and San Jose. It was created in a 1959 split from area code 415 in a flash-cut with no permissive dialing period. On July 11, 1998, it was split again, with area code 831 having been created for the counties of Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito. On November 20, 2012, numbers in a new overlay area code 669 began to be assigned to new customers, requiring the use of 11 digit dialing for all customers.
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