Area code 267
Developed in 1947, and first implemented in 1951 by AT&T, the North American Numbering Plan set out to simplify and facilitate direct dialing of long distance calls. In order to facilitate direct dialing calls, the North American Numbering Plan was created and instituted in 1947 by AT&T, also known as the Bell System (Bell Laboratories), the U.S. telephone semi-monopoly. At first, the codes were used only by long-distance operators; the first customer-dialed calls using area codes did not occur until November 10, 1951, when the first directly-dialed call was made from Englewood, New Jersey to Alameda, California. Direct dialing was gradually instituted throughout the country, and by the mid-1960s, it was commonplace in most of the larger cities.
Area code 267 is an area code used in Pennsylvania which serves the south east corner of the state including the city of Philadelphia and its northern suburbs along with area code 215. Area code 215 was one of the original area codes established in 1947, while overlay code 267 was established July 1, 1997. It is one of the later area codes to have the second digit other than 0 or 1.
The cities under the range of area code 267 are Philadelphia, Fort Washington, Lansdale, Doylestown, Levittown, Jenkintown, Quakertown, Ft Wash, Willow Grove, and Langhorne.
Areas under code 267 are serviced by a wide array of telephone service providers, including Omnipoint Communications Enterprise, Blue Licenses Holding, Sprint Spectrum, Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, Metrocall, Broadwing Communications, Level 3 Communications, Schuylkill Mobile Fone, TCG Delaware Valley Inc, Nextel Communications, Cavalier Telephone Mid Atlantic, Verizon Pennsylvania, Pac West Telecomm, and many others. All of these providers are committed to quality services, offering a number of tariff schemes for the customers to choose from according to their requirement.
In addition to landline, the service providers also offer cellular connectivity, and dial up and broadband Internet. Some of these also provide premium Wi Fi service. Many have ties with satellite TV networks like Dish, and provide Cable TV services as well. Most importantly, all these service providers have interesting "package" deals that combine two or more services for a price less than what it would have taken for the customers to take subscriptions of each service separately.
Worthy of specific mention in the field of Internet Service Providers of Area Code 267 are companies like Qwest.net (Qwest DSL), Verizon DSL, Toast.net, Broadband National, PeoplePC Online, Copper.net, TotalUSA, GlobalNet Telecom Inc, and Internet Central, which are ever coming up with new attractive plans and tariff schemes addressing a wide array of customers for them to choose from. Each providing high quality connections, great service, and low prices, the service providers have a multitude of access numbers to select from according to the customers' requirement.
With provision for additional facilities like voicemail, caller identification service and many more, it is evident that the service providers of the regions under Area Code 267 keep customer satisfaction as their highest priority, and compete with each other for achieving the same.