They serve the Hampton Roads metropolitan area and the Eastern Shore of the state.
A plan was developed that would have created a concentrated overlay in the Hampton Roads metro area leaving all of the Eastern Shore in 757.
A split could have meant Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and Norfolk, for example, retaining 757 and the rest of the area changing to 948, or vice versa.
[1] In March 2022, Verizon set an activation date of April 9, 2022, with area code 948 officially taking effect on May 9.
[3] "757" is commonly used as a general geographic descriptor for the Hampton Roads and Virginia Peninsula region.