Area Code 978

Area Code 978 covers area of central Massachusetts - created on 1st September 1997. It was created when code 508 got split to fulfill ever increasing demands of telephone lines. After sometime, on 2nd May 2001 an overlay 351 was added to code 978.

Area code size depends on the population of area. The three-digit code represents a specific region. Area codes are also significant because by having three extra digits increases the possible number of phone combinations by manifold. Indeed, today when heavily populated areas of the country start to run out of phone number combinations within their area code, the first thing they generally do is establish a new area.

There are total three codes serving region of Central Massachusetts:

• 978 (created in 1997)
• 351 (created in 2001)
• 508 (created in 1988)

Other codes in Massachusetts are:

• 339 (created in 2001)
• 351 (created in 2001)
• 413 (created in 1947)
• 508 (created in 1988)
• 617 (created in 1947)
• 774 (created in 2001)
• 781 (created in 1997)
• 857 (created in 2001)

Counties in code 978 are:

BARNSTABLE BRISTOL ESSEX FRANKLIN

MIDDLESEX STRAFFORD SUFFOLK WORCESTER

Standard Time Zone for these areas is Eastern Time zone.

Towns and cities covered by 978 are:

Acton Amesbury Andover Ashburnham Ashby Athol Ayer Baldwinville Barre Berlin Beverly Billerica Bolton Boxborough Boxford Byfield Carlisle Chelmsford Clinton Concord Danvers Dracut Dunstable East Templeton Erving Essex Fitchburg Ft Devens Gardner Georgetown Gloucester Groton Groveland

Hamilton Harvard Hathorne Haverhill Hubbardston Hudson Ipswich Lancaster Lawrence Leominster Littleton Lowell Lunenburg Manchester Maynard Merrimac Methuen Middleton New Salem Newbury Newburyport North Andover North Billerica North Chelmsford North Reading Nutting Lake Orange Peabody Pepperell Petersham Prides Crossing Princeton Rockport

Rowley Royalston Salem Salisbury Shirley South Barre South Hamilton South Lancaster Sterling Still River Stow Sudbury Templeton Tewksbury Topsfield Townsend Tyngsboro Village Of Nagog Woods Wendell Wendell Depot Wenham West Boxford West Groton West Newbury West Townsend Westford Westminster Wilmington Winchendon Winchendon Springs

Leading institutions, ISPs and Phone companies:

Some of the leading educational institutions serving the area code 978 are:

Endicott College (Ph: 978-9211000)
Fisher College (Ph: 978-3428919)
University of Massachusetts (Ph: 978-9342500)
Western New England College (ph: 978-7723212)

Some of the ISPs offering dialup and dedicated services for the people of 978 regions are:

• A 1 Excel Internet
• A Silicon Networks
• A plus Access
• Bbe Computers Internet Service
• Bewell Net
• Cogent Communications, Inc.
• COBWEB Internet Services

Some of the phone companies for 978 are:

• ALLEGIANCE TELECOM, INC. - CA
• BELLSOUTH TELECOMM INC DBA SOUTH CENTRAL BELL TEL
• CELLCO PARTNERSHIP DBA VERIZON WIRELESS - AZ
• CELLCO PARTNERSHIP DBA VERIZON WIRELESS - CA
• DOBSON CELLULAR SYSTEMS, INC.
• LEAP WIRELESS INTL, INC. DBA CRICKET COMM, INC.
• LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC - CA
• NEW CINGULAR WIRELESS PCS, LLC - GA
• NEXTEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
• PAC - WEST TELECOMM, INC.
• PACIFIC BELL
• QWEST CORPORATION
• SOUTHERN TELCOM NETWORK, INC. - AR
• THE TELEPHONE CONNECTION OF LOS ANGELES, INC.
• USA MOBILITY WIRELESS, INC.
• WINDSTREAM COMMUNICATIONS, INC. - AR

Reverse phone lookup in area code 978:

You can find information about the owner of cell number/telephone number through reverse phone lookup. However, if you need to get information about any cell number then yellow white page directories are worthless because they do not list cell phone numbers. Mobiles numbers are not matter of public records.

Therefore a reverse phone number look up is valuable as it lets you find the name, address and service carrier of the owner of any phone number. If you need to find details of phone number with area code 978 then get help from reverse phone directory available for '978' phone numbers. Unlike phone directory, the reverse directories contain information against phone numbers.