Main city: Colchester
Timezone: Eastern
Phone type: Landline
Operator: Teleport Communications Group - New York

Colchester, a Town in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 16,068 at the 2010 census. In 2005 it was ranked 57th on the "100 Best Places to Live" in the United States, conducted by CNN. In 2010 Colchester became the first town in Connecticut, and the 36th in the country, to be certified with the National Wildlife Federation as a Community Wildlife Habitat. In 2013 it was ranked 8th on the "Best Places to Live" in the United States, conducted by CNN, in the "Least crowded towns" category. ^source

Area code 860 is a telephone area code that covers most of Connecticut, except its southwest, which use area codes 203 and 475. Area code 959, originally announced in August 1999, will overlay area code 860 when the 860 code nears exhaustion, starting in August 2014. Effective November 14, 2009, all calls within Connecticut must be dialed with 10 digits beginning with the area code, including calls involving two numbers using the same area code. ^source