Pick 909 if the number should read as Fontana.
The 2004 letter lists Fontana and Ontario among the cities that stayed in 909.
The area codes for Fontana are 909 and 840.
Fontana uses 909, with 840 laid over it in 2021. The two codes cover Fontana, Ontario and Rancho Cucamonga as one area.
93 FCC complaints
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The 2004 letter lists Fontana and Ontario among the cities that stayed in 909.
Chino, Chino Hills, Montclair and Colton are named for the same code.
951 covers them. It was split from 909 on July 17, 2004.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 111 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 909 and 840. 909 was named most, on 93 of them (84%).
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How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with each Fontana code.
Source: Federal Communications Commission, CGB - Consumer Complaints Data (dataset 3xyp-aqkj), issue "Unwanted Calls", read on November 4, 2026. Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
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Yes. 909 covers the southwestern part of that county, including Fontana, Ontario and Chino.
No. Fontana is in 909, which does reach the eastern edge of Los Angeles County at Pomona and Claremont.
A local call in Fontana is dialed with 1 plus ten digits, whichever of its codes the number starts with. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 111 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Fontana code: 909 (93) and 840 (18). A complaint is one person's report. Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
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