Ottawa and Eastern Ontario will be receiving a new telephone area code of 343, as an overlay, effective on 17 May 2010. Linky from the CRTC. The area already has ten-digit dialing, so the bother of getting used to that has already passed. This means that 807 and 705 are now the last two area codes in Ontario without ten-digit dialing or overlays.
So you have three digit area codes and seven digit telephone numbers? Interesting. When our numbers were revamped we went with two digit area codes and eight digit telephone numbers.
Yes. Canada and the USA and a bunch of much smaller countries like Barbados all share the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), which dictates three-digit area codes and seven-digit local numbers. There are hundreds of area codes in the NANP, the vast bulk of which are in the States.
I thought Australia only had one-digit area codes?
One digit if you’re ringing from outside Australia. Two digits if you’re ringing from another area code within Australia e.g.
To reach a NSW number from, say, New Zealand, you’d ring 61 2 xxxx xxxx
To reach a NSW number from, say QLD, you’d ring 02 xxxx xxxx
There are only four area codes for the whole country for fixed line phone numbers.
Ah, so the 0 in 02 is actually your trunk dialing digit? If you’re dialing locally, would you just dial the eight-digit local number?
Yes
Not only do we still have seven-digit codes up here, but we also have telephones, for the most part anyway.
Maybe it’s because of your username, but I initially read those as “NSFW” numbers.
Montreal got another overlaid area code a while back, and it’s so confusing when people say it! 438? Where’s that? The 514 people already make fun of the surrounding 450s (and a fair amount of teasing goes out to 819 and 418), but we don’t know what to do about the 438s… they’re like the 514s, they live on the island, but they are different :eek:
You try having a 647 number that sounds like the local pizza number…
310-1010?
Or XXX-1111 ? 