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The Government of Canada's Translation Bureau recommends using hyphens between groups; e.g. 250-555-0199. [2] Using the format specified by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Recommendation E.164 for telephone numbers, a Canadian number is written as +1NPANXXXXXX , with no spaces, hyphens, or other characters; e.g. +12505550199 .
mnemonic: 1867 was the year of Canada's confederation (formation; long-distance calls to the 867 area code must begin 1-867) 868: Trinidad and Tobago (all) June 1, 1997: split of 809; mnemonic: TNT; 869: Saint Kitts and Nevis (all) October 1, 1996: split of 809; 870: Arkansas (Texarkana, Jonesboro, Pine Bluff, and southern, eastern, and ...
While the implementation of 548 had the effect of allocating a total of over 23 million numbers to a region of 2.6 million people, overlays have become the preferred method of relief in Canada and the United States. Canada does not use telephone number pooling as a relief measure. Each CLEC is allocated blocks of 10,000 numbers (corresponding ...
8-1-1 is an N-1-1 telephone number in Canada and the United States. In Canada, the number is used for non-urgent health services. In the United States, 8-1-1 provides a uniform national phone number to access local utility location services.
Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Telephone country codes, originally termed International Codes by the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (C.C.I.T.T.) in 1960, [1] but also sometimes referred to as "country dial-in codes", or historically "international subscriber dialing" (ISD) codes in the U.K., are telephone ...
The incumbent local exchange carrier in the numbering plan area is Bell Canada. Almost all Toronto Bell Canada landlines have area code 416, with 647-numbers allocated disproportionately to a growing mobile telephone market and to competitive local exchange carriers, such as cable and voice-over-IP services.
Canada +1: n/a 10: Mobile phones use geographic area codes. Exchanges may service on mobile devices; local numbers are portable between wired and wireless carriers. While area code 600 has been established as a non-geographic code that can be used by mobile phones, the only significant mobile usage has been for satellite phone service in remote ...
Area codes 905, 289, 365, and 742 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Golden Horseshoe region that surrounds Lake Ontario in Southern Ontario, Canada. The numbering plan area (NPA) comprises (clockwise) the Niagara Peninsula , the city of Hamilton , the regional municipalities of Halton , Peel , York ...