Area Code 214
The system of area codes was developed to facilitate telephonic communication among all the states in the United States of America. The area code 214 serves the state of Texas and it includes the city of Dallas. The system of area codes was developed after a long research of 7 years by the researchers at the AT&T and Bell laboratories. Before the development of the system of area codes the telephonic communication system used only one code to carry out communication. The system of three digit area codes is known as the North American Numbering Plan or NANP. Under this system all the states and provinces in the United States of America were provided with three digit area codes. The middle digit varied with the number of area code that a state or a province used. The states or provinces that used one area code had 0 as their middle digit and the ones that used more than one area code had 1 as the middle digit. This is a very popular telephone numbering system. This numbering system came into existence in the year 1947, but has remained the same even today. There has been only one change and that is one area code has been split to give rise to several new ones in order to accommodate higher traffic. The area code system developed for the United States of America is one o the most comprehensive and efficient numbering system in the world.
Looking into the history of the area code 214 we find that it is one of the oldest area codes that were released with the first batch of area codes in the October of 1947. The area code 972 was established in the year 1996 by creating a split in the area code serving the Dallas city. This area code soon began to be used as an overlay after the creation of the area code 469 in the year 1999.this resulted in three codes serving the same city and this required dialing a 10 digit number to make the calls. There are a total of 18 counties and 64 cities that are served by the area code 214. This area code includes a total of 750 exchanges. Names of the counties that are served by this area code are Collin, Denton, Navarro, Ellis, Johnson, Dallas, Rockwall, and Kaufman. Cities that are covered by the area code 214 are as follows: Addison, Avalon, Bardwell, Carrollton, Cockrell Hill, Combine, Copeville, Coppell, Crandall, , Cedar Hill, Celina, Elmo, Dallas, Hutchins, Irving, Italy, Duncanville Ennis, Farmers Branch, Farmersville, Fate, Ferris, Frisco, Garland, Glenn Heights, Flower Mound, Forney, Melissa, Mesquite, Grand Prairie, Highland Park, Josephine, Kaufman, Lancaster, Lavon, Lewisville, Little Elm, McKinney, Pecan Hill, Plano, Midlothian, Milford, Nevada, Oak Leaf, Palmer, Red Oak, Rice, Princeton, Prosper, Richardson.
The names of some of the best known carriers in the area code 214:
Southwestern Bell Wireless
Arch Wireless Holdings
Teletouch Communications
Sprint Spectrum
Bay Star Satellite Paging
Air Wire Network Comm Inc Dba In
T Mobile Usa
Level 3 Communicationsx
Metrocall
Geotek Communications
American Messaging
Star Net Paging
Progressive Conceptsx
Dallas Nextfone Systems
Metro Pcs
Helmsco Inc