how many area codes does your city have?

SpongeG · #1 Posted: **Jan 11, 2007, 5:58 AM**

Vancouver has two: 604 & 778

malek · #2 Posted: **Jan 11, 2007, 6:04 AM**

dear lord

Greco Roman · #3 Posted: **Jan 11, 2007, 6:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

Vancouver has two: 604 & 778

I've never heard of the 778 code before. What area does it cover?

mersar · #4 Posted: **Jan 11, 2007, 6:35 AM**

http://www.cnac.ca/npa_codes/npa_map.htm

There we go. Someone close this now.

zoomer · #5 Posted: **Jan 11, 2007, 6:38 AM**

17.

ReginaGuy · #6 Posted: **Jan 11, 2007, 3:09 PM**

This is a pretty dumb thread, there are only 3 cities in Canada that have more than one

caltrane74 · #7 Posted: **Jan 11, 2007, 3:11 PM**

The GTA has 5-7 depending on what you consider the GTA

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feepa · #8 Posted: **Jan 11, 2007, 3:27 PM**

for any worth to this conversation, Alberta may be soon doubling there area codes (to 4 total), by having 2 area codes in the 780 and 2 in the 403 areas. I think 403 gets it first in as early as 2011? and 780 in 2015.
http://www.cnac.ca/npa_codes/relief/...RUF_Report.pdf

BlackRedGold · #9 Posted: **Jan 11, 2007, 3:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by ReginaGuy

This is a pretty dumb thread, there are only 3 cities in Canada that have more than one

But there are 4 metros that do!

Doug · #10 Posted: **Jan 11, 2007, 4:08 PM**

Tue, October 31, 2006
New phone code

By PABLO FERNANDEZ, CALGARY SUN

Alberta’s blistering growth will soon affect the way Albertans make their phone calls, likely resulting in 10-digit local dialing and a third area code.

But unlike the two area codes that currently exist in Alberta, which have geographic boundaries, the new overlay area code will be superimposed over the entire province, said Glenn Pilley, director of the Canadian Numbering Administrator, which is responsible for phone numbers in Canada.

“We need to drop another area code into the province,” he said.

“403 will run out of numbers in three years and 780 will run out one year later.

“So we need to have another area code in place one year before that happens, preferably 18 months before.”

Cell phone companies, which will have to reprogram handsets, alarm companies which rely on phone service for home security and building buzzers, which use phone lines to connect visitors to apartments, will need the time to adjust, he said.

In a proposal the CNA hopes to send to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission within the week for approval, the province would receive a new area code and entirely switch to a 10-digit dialing system, even for local calls, said Pilley.

If approved, the proposed changes will take place within the next two years, he said.

The CNA hopes the CRTC, which often approves CNA proposals, will return with a verdict within six months, said Pilley.

The new area code will be given to new phone numbers in the province, regardless of their geographic location, he said.

Depending on growth, the new area code will provide Alberta with another 10 to 20 years’ worth of numbers, said Pilley.

Canadian locales already using overlay area codes and 10-digit dialing include Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

mersar · #11 Posted: **Jan 11, 2007, 4:09 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by feepa

for any worth to this conversation, Alberta may be soon doubling there area codes (to 4 total), by having 2 area codes in the 780 and 2 in the 403 areas. I think 403 gets it first in as early as 2011? and 780 in 2015.
http://www.cnac.ca/npa_codes/relief/...RUF_Report.pdf

A lot sooner then that. They've allocated 2 more area codes (587 and 825) for Alberta, and the implementation date is targeted for March 2009 (403 will exhaust by October 2009, and 780 by Nov 2010 otherwise). Looking like the favoured plan is an overlay, so the entire province will need 10 digit dialing like what Vancouver and Toronto, etc, already have. The decision now is whether its one overlay covering the entire province, or two separate ones, one for each 403 and the other for 780.

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harls · #12 Posted: **Jan 11, 2007, 4:24 PM**

we just started 10-digit dialing not too long ago. Before I could call my home in Gatineau from work here in Ottawa without the area code, not anymore.

vid · #13 Posted: **Jan 11, 2007, 5:05 PM**

Thunder Bay is in 807. It is scheduled to run out of numbers by 2354, at which time we will use the area code 5ண*cough twice*.

A more interesting thread would be comparing local calling codes, to see which cities have the same ones.

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habsfan · #14 Posted: **Jan 11, 2007, 5:19 PM**

Ha ha, My penis is bigger than yours!

graupner · #15 Posted: **Jan 11, 2007, 6:59 PM**

My city has more area code than you, gnagnagnAgna!!!

We should make other ,more interesting city vs. city contests, likle which city has girls with the biggest breast per capita, which city has the highest average IQ, which city has the highest consumption of birth abort pill, etc. Now we would be talking!!!