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Local calls from Canadian landlines are dialled without the trunk prefix. Overseas calls to locations outside the NANP are dialled with the 011 international prefix, followed by the country code and the national significant number. Canada was divided into nine numbering plan areas with unique area codes in 1947 when the American Telephone and ...
[citation needed] The southern region (including Montreal) retained 514; the middle region received 819, and the northern region, which had no telephone services, was added to 418. Area code 819 thus bordered area code 613 and the new area code 705 in Ontario, area code 418 in the east and the north of Quebec, and the remainder of area code 514 ...
split of 408; 832: Texas (Houston Metropolitan Area and suburbs) January 16, 1999: overlaid on 713 and 281; 2014: overlaid by 346; 833: toll-free telephone service: June 3, 2017: created [18] 834: not in use; available for geographic assignment 835: Pennsylvania (Chester, Lehigh Valley, Norristown, Reading; parts of southeastern Pennsylvania ...
Bell exchange, Montreal, late 1890s. When Montreal's local calls were handled manually by operators, the caller requested the destination by name, before the first (four-digit) local telephone numbers were assigned in July 1881. In 1898, exchange names Main, Westmount, Uptown, and East, were added before the number.
The Canadian federal government's Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada allots the individual call signs to the radio amateurs it licenses. There are 24 possible 2-letter prefixes and 240 2-letter/1-number prefixes available to Canadian operators based on the ITU blocks (CF–CK, CY–CZ, VA–VG, VO, VX–VY and XJ–XO).
The additional demands for PCS and cellular phone numbers helped necessitate the 831/408 area code split, the 650/415 split, and the earlier 510/415 split. Part of the previous dialing plan included a mass calling prefix for radio station contests, introduced in the 1960s because some contests put unacceptable loads on the Bay Area's telephone ...
A telephone prefix is the first set of digits after the country, and area codes of a telephone number. In the North American Numbering Plan countries (country code 1), it is the first three digits of a seven-digit local phone number, the second three digits of the 3-3-4 scheme. In other countries, both the prefix and the number may have ...
The main incumbent local exchange carrier in area code 613 is Bell Canada, but there are some five independent companies serving rural exchanges: the Lansdowne Rural Telephone Company, serving Lansdowne; [8] the North Frontenac Telephone Company, serving Sharbot Lake and Parham; [9] the North Renfrew Telephone Company, serving Beachburg, Westmeath, and the area outside Pembroke; [10] the ...