South Santa Clara County’s 50-plus-year honeymoon with the 408 is over, and telephone users are encouraged to get their dialing fingers warmed up to welcome a new area code to town.
Pacific Gas and Electric is proposing an economic development rate that could potentially offer a discount of up to 35 percent to large employers who use 200 kilowatts of electricity or more a month, if approved by the California Public Utilities Commission.