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| | 757 Dialing Starts July 1 for Eastern VA |
 | | The 757 code, which has been carved out of the existing 804 area, will serve the lower peninsula (Williamsburg, Newport News and Hampton), South Hampton Roads (Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk and Virginia Beach) and Virginia's Eastern Shore. |
 | | Of the 756 exchange codes (first three digits of a phone number) in the 804 area code, only about 80 remain unused. |
 | | Area codes have traditionally had either a 0 or a 1 as a second digit. |
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