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Telephone numbers in Canada follow the fixed-length format of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) of a three-digit area code, a three-digit central office code (or exchange code), and a four-digit station or line code. This is represented as NPA NXX XXXX. [1]
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The initial area codes were created in 1947 as routing codes for operator-assisted calls. Quebec and Ontario were the only provinces that received multiple area codes. Quebec was split between area codes 514 and 418. Area code 514 was originally assigned to the entire western half of Quebec from the Canada–US border to the Hudson Strait. The ...
The area serviced by area codes 204, 431, and 584 in blue with neighbouring provinces, territories, and U.S. states in other colours Area codes 204, 431, and 584 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Canadian province of Manitoba .
In July 2018, area code 474 was reserved as a future area code for all of Saskatchewan, as area codes 306 and 639 are expected to exhaust their central office prefixes as early as June 2022. [11] The in-service date of area code 474 was October 2, 2021, with no changes in the established dialing procedure. [12]
A new overlay area code, 437, started operation on March 25, 2013. [6] [7] That effectively allocates 24 million numbers to a city of 2.5 million people. Area code 942 is scheduled for addition to the 416/647/437 overlay on April 26, 2025. [8] Area code 387 has been reserved for Toronto's future use.
Despite Quebec City's rapid growth, by the turn of the millennium, area code 418 was the last of Quebec and Ontario's original four area codes not to have been split. By 2006, however, area code 418 was on the brink of exhaustion because of Canada's system of number allocation.
Area code 506 was expected to face numbering exhaustion in 2020, and was to be overlaid with area code 428, beginning November 21, 2020, with permissive ten-digit dialing to start in May 2020. [1] Later, the projected exhaust date was delayed to April 2023 and the implementation date was postponed to April 23, 2022. [ 2 ]