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In United States and Canada, a telephone number is of ten digits divided into three parts. First three digits make area code, next three make the exchange and the rest make the actual phone number. Thus area code and exchange code together zoom in to the actual geographical location of that particular number. The telephone network of United States has been divided into different area codes. The area code 810 serves the eastern region of Michigan and is the universal code for the cell phones of Livingston County in lower Michigan.

Since 1961, 810 used to be the first new area code of Michigan. And it served the suburban regions of Detroit and north of Wayne County which was originally served by the area code 313. In 1997, the new area code 248 was introduced and the areas of St Claire County, Macomb County, Lapeer County, Genesee County, and few pockets of Livingston County were included under it. As a result, there was a lack of uniformity in area code division. There were different area codes in the distance of two to three miles but after passing more than thirty miles, you would reach the same area code. Then in 2002, area code 586 was separated from 810 to bring back the uniformity and Macomb County as assigned the code 586.

Area code 819 covers eight counties. They are St Clair, Genesee, Sanilac, Oakland, Lapeer, Wayne, Livingston, and Shiawassee. There are more than seventy cities under this area code. Some of the important cities served under code 810 are Applegate, Brighton, Detroit, Dryden, Genesee, Memphis and Swartz Creek. There are 417 exchanges that come under 810. With so many cities, counties and exchanges under it, this is indeed a very important code of central part of America. So if you are looking for a number in Michigan state’s city of Flint in Genesee County, your number would look like 810-204-xxxx.

There are many cellular and landline telephone service providers that act as carrier of this area code, Dubson, Michigan Bell Tel Co, Sprint Spectrum, Nextel Communication, AT&T local to name a few . Since 1993, when this area code was designated, till date there are 296 landline connections, and 110 wireless exchanges of this code. There are about 37 different connection carriers. This area code covers over 40 zip codes making it quite a busy network.

Michigan State comes under EST or Eastern Standard Time. Area codes 517 and 989 serve the western part of the mainland 810 area and 519 in east. 989 also serves the northern part and 734, 248, 947 and 586 operate in the south. All these codes together function in different town and its suburbs. There are various websites available that help you look for any particular number or exchange codes. You will get the entire list of the cities, towns and the exchanges that fall under this area code. Though this quite a busy network but with less than forty carriers serving them, phone number look up is quite an easy task.