Area Code 810, I was today years old.....

[leroythelion]

Originally Posted by YAZ

Brighton area was 313 forever.

On 8/10/93 we changed to 810.

Clever.

So, there we were, in the middle of everything.

I lived in the 810 area.

3 miles west of my home was 517.

5 miles east was 248.

And 313 was way east.

For a little while, calling outside our LATA was 1st tier long distance rates.

Back in the old days, area codes had more to with area and geography than populations. Phone calls were routed by analog switches so it had more to with how to get a phone call to somebody in an efficient manner. At some point (not sure, 1980's maybe) everything starting going digital and it mattered less. My cell phone has a NY area code even though I haven't lived there in 14 years.

[jiminnm]

Originally Posted by mjlo

Actually you aren’t wrong Oakland county was 313 until the 810 was created in 1993. It was split off into 248 in 1997. It was only an 810 area code for about 4 years. Pretty much the whole thumb down to the Ohio border was 313 until 1993.

We lived in Novi when the 810 area code was implemented. We went to the public meetings about the change because the planned area code line would have put us in 313 and our next door neighbor in 810. Turns out we were not the only complainers, and even the city was not happy. We had moved before the final area codes lines were implemented, giving all of Novi one area code, until 248 was implemented and impacted all of Novi, if I remember correctly.