Florida Area Codes

Florida! The Sunshine State is one of the most populous states of USA. The standard time zone implemented throughout the state is Eastern Time Zone. The state is South Atlantic state which is one of the geographic divisions of United States. Florida is fourth largest state of United States. Capital of the Florida State is Tallahassee. This is also the biggest city of Panhandle Area.
List of Florida's area codes is given below:
 

Area Code 239 Area Code 305 Area Code 321 Area Code 352 Area Code 386 Area Code 407

Area Code 561 Area Code 689 Area Code 727 Area Code 754 Area Code 772 Area Code 786

Area Code 813 Area Code 850 Area Code 863 Area Code 904 Area Code 941 Area Code 954

Major companies providing telephone services in Florida are:

• ACS OF THE NORTHLAND, INC.
• ALLTEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC. - AR
• AT&T LOCAL
• CBEYOND COMMUNICATIONS, LLC - CA
• CELLCO PARTNERSHIP DBA VERIZON WIRELESS - CA
• DELTACOM, INC. - AL
• LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC - AL
• LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC - AR
• LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC - CA
• MPOWER COMMUNICATIONS CORP. - CA
• NEW CINGULAR WIRELESS PCS, LLC
• NEW CINGULAR WIRELESS PCS, LLC - GA
• NEXTEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
• O1 COMMUNICATIONS, INC. - CA
• PAC - WEST TELECOMM, INC.
• POWERTEL BIRMINGHAM LICENSES, INC.
• QWEST CORPORATION
• ROYAL STREET COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
• SOUTHWESTERN BELL
• T-MOBILE USA, INC.
• TW TELECOM OF CALIFORNIA LP - CA
• USA MOBILITY WIRELESS, INC.
• VERIZON CALIFORNIA INC.-CA (GTE)

A brief description of  Florida Area Codes is given below:

It was created for serving the areas located in Southwest side of Florida. It was formed in 2002 to give numbering relief to area code 941 when the code 941 was running out of available phone numbers due to the exhausted demands for telephone lines.

The code is one of the original codes created in 1947. Area Code 813 and 904 were split from code 305 in 1953 and 1965 respectively.

The code is providing telephone services in the regions of Central Florida including Brevard County. The code 321 was created on 1st November 1999 - small part of code 321 is overlaid with the 407 area code on the way to Orlando.

It was created on 3rd March 1996 as a result in split of the code 906. The code is providing telephone services in Northern Florida. It is serving the counties of Marion, Citrus, Gilchrist, Levy, Sumter and Dixie.

The code is providing telephone services in Northern Florida. It does not cover contiguous area and is separated by area code 904 which lies in between the two portions of code 386.

It was created in 1989 as a result in split of area code 305. The code is providing telephone services in the regions of Central Florida.

It was created on 13th May 1996 as a result in split of area code 407. The code 561 started serving the Indian River, St. Lucie, Martin and Palm Beach counties. The region served by the 561 code was getting populated and were running out of available phone numbers. As a result the northern part of the code 516 split of to originate area code 772.

The code was scheduled to provide numbering relief to area code 407 working in Central Florida. The announcement of the new code 689 was made on April 3, 2002 for the central Florida area that consists of five counties.

It was created in 1998 for providing telephone services in Central Florida. Pinellas County is completely served by the 727 area code.

It was created on 1st April 2002 when area code 954 was running out of available phone numbers. The code is used in the areas of South Florida.

It was created on 11th September 2002 for serving the areas of South Florida. The code was created when area code 561 got split because it was running out of the available phone numbers.

It was created as an overlay in 1998 to serve the Miami-Dade County when area code 305 was running out of the available phone numbers. The Code 786 is providing telephone services in South Florida.

It is providing telephone services in Central Florida and it was created in 1953. It is honored as second area code of Florida. The code 305 was serving the Florida alone before creation of new area code 305. The code 305 was serving the Florida alone before creation of new area code 305.

The code serves the region of Florida Panhandle; majority of the Northwestern areas of Florida are grouped under the Florida Panhandle. The code 850 mainly serves the areas of Pensacola, Tallahassee, Panama City and the Florida panhandle. The Code was established on 23rd March 1998.

It is providing telephone services in Heartland, and Polk County located in Central Florida. The Code was formed in 1999 when the area code 941 got split because of the exhausted demands for telephone connections.

The telephone area code was introduced as a result in split of area code 305 on 11th July 1965. The Code 904 is situated in between the code 386 - code 386 covers the code 904 from the west as well as from the South side.

It was created on 3rd March 1996 as a result in split of area code 813. The split occurred in order to meet the exhausted demands for telephone lines. The code 813 was running out of available phone numbers and so it got a split to overcome the problem.

It was implemented on 11th September 1995 for providing telephone services in South Florida.  The code was originally created for serving the Broward County only and it was split from area code 305. An overlay area code 786 was added to the area code 954 on 1st July 1998.