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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.
411 is a telephone number for local directory assistance in Canada and the United States. Until the early 1980s, 411 – and the related 113 number – were free to call in most jurisdictions. In the United States, the service is commonly known as "information", [1] although its official name is "directory assistance". [2]
Yellow Pages Canada was established in 1908 as a division of Bell Canada. In 1971, it was renamed to Tele-Direct Inc. [3] In 1999, the company changed its name to Bell Actimedia Inc. to reflect a closer alliance with Bell. [4]
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. Telephone numbers are portable, with ...
Bell Canada & * BCE Inc.* - including Bell Aliant* (which itself integrated Manitoba Telecom Services; NorthernTel; Ontera; and MT&T, NewTel, NBTel, and IslandTel), Northwestel,* and Télébec* Birch Communications
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 ...
As of March 2021, there are over 33 million wireless subscriptions in Canada. [1] Approximately 90% of Canadian mobile phone users subscribe to one of the four largest national telecommunication companies (Rogers Wireless, Telus Mobility, Bell Mobility and Freedom Mobile) or one of their subsidiary brands.
There is no number pooling in Canada, and redundant telephone exchange rate centres are not merged when the underlying municipalities are amalgamated. In February 2017, area code 468 was reserved as a third area code in the region. [5] This area code became active on October 20, 2022. [6]