Area Code 973

Area Code 973 was created on 1st June 1997 and serves Northern Areas of New Jersey. New Jersey is Middle Atlantic state of United States. Code 973 was established as a result of area code 201 split. Because of the population spurts and exhausted demands for telephone area 973 was overlaid by new area code 862. It became mandatory to dial a ten digit number even while making local calls.

Ever-increasing number of landline and wireless users has caused an increase in codes, several splits and overlays. Areas are split into further smaller areas and are assigned with new and unique codes just to facilitate customers with telephone connections as per their requirements. A three digit code is always kept unique. Area codes can't be reused for another area - though phone numbers can be repeated while keeping the area codes unique.

Standard Time for all these areas is Eastern Time Zone. Northern areas of area code 862 are covered by:

• Area Code 862 (created in 2001)
• Area Code 973 (created in 1997)
• Area Code 201 (created in 1947)
• Area Code 551 (created in 2001)

Area 973 is surrounded from four sides by the codes as:

• West: 570, 908
• North: 845
• East: 201/551
• South: 609

Counties in area code 973:

BERGEN ESSEX HUDSON MIDDLESEX MONMOUTH

MORRIS PASSAIC SOMERSET SUSSEX UNION

Cities in code 973 are:

Andover Augusta Belleville Bloomfield Bloomingdale Boonton Branchville Brookside Budd Lake Butler Caldwell Cedar Grove Cedar Knolls Chatham Clifton Denville Dover East Hanover East Orange Essex Fells Fairfield Flanders Florham Park Franklin Glasser Glen Ridge Glenwood Green Village Greendell Haledon Hamburg Haskell Hawthorne Hewitt Hibernia Highland Lakes

Hopatcong Ironia Irvington Kenvil Lafayette Lake Hiawatha Lake Hopatcong Landing Layton Ledgewood Lincoln Park Little Falls Livingston Madison Maplewood Mc Afee Mendham Middleville Millburn Mine Hill Montague Montclair Montville Morris Plains Morristown Mount Arlington Mount Freedom Mount Tabor Mountain Lakes Netcong New Vernon Newark Newfoundland Newton Nutley Oak Ridge

Ogdensburg Orange Parsippany Passaic Paterson Pequannock Picatinny Arsenal Pine Brook Pompton Lakes Pompton Plains Randolph Ringwood Riverdale Rockaway Roseland Short Hills South Orange Sparta Springfield Stanhope Stillwater Stockholm Succasunna Sussex Swartswood Totowa Towaco Vernon Verona Wallpack Center Wanaque Wayne West Milford West Orange Wharton Whippany

ISPs and Telephone companies:

Some of the ISPs offering dialup and dedicated services for the people of 973 areas are:

• A plus Access
• A Silicon Networks
• A Value Access Providers--- VAP
• Ace Dialup
• AT&T DSL Service
• Bestyet Communications
• Camino-Net Internet Services
• COBWEB Internet Services
• Cybermind

Some of the main carriers and telephone companies for 973 areas are:

• 360NETWORKS (USA) INC. - CA
• ACS WIRELESS, INC.
• BELLSOUTH TELECOMM INC DBA SOUTH CENTRAL BELL TEL
• COOK TELECOM, INC.
• MCIMETRO, ATS, INC.
• PACIFIC BELL - CLEC
• QWEST CORPORATION
• SOUTHWESTERN BELL
• TELEPORT COMMUNICATIONS GROUP - LOS ANGELES
• USA MOBILITY WIRELESS, INC.

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