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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.
National conventions for writing telephone numbers vary by country. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) publishes a recommendation entitled Notation for national and international telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and Web addresses.
not in use; code is reserved for directory assistance applications. 1-NPA-555-01XX is used for fictional telephone numbers; 1-NPA-555-1212 is used for directory assistance; and other 1-NPA-555-XXXX numbers can be used for other 555 services. 556. not in use; available for personal communications services.
Only 555-0100 through 555-0199 are reserved for fictional use. Where used, these are often routed to information services; Canadian telephone companies briefly promoted 555-1313 as a pay-per-use "name that number" reverse lookup during the mid-1990s. Occasionally, valid telephone numbers are used as song titles.
Toll-free numbers are normally specific to each country. Canadian numbers are an exception as they are drawn from the same SMS / 800 pool as other North American Numbering Plan countries; the +800 Universal International Freephone Number is an exception as these work from multiple country codes.
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 few exceptions for specific services such as pocket pagers.
Several NANP codes; see Telephone numbers in Canada . Several NANP areas; see Telephone numbers in the United States . No National Call Prefix needed since 29 August 2010 according to the new numbering plan. All geographical numbers have 8 digits.
Interchangeable numbering plan area (NPA) codes and central office codes are codes that permit any of the ten numerals in the middle position of the area code and the central office code, which both are three-digit numbers. [1] [2] This change in numbering format was implemented first for central office codes by 1973, which eliminated the ...
Ten-digit dialing is a telephone dialing procedure in the countries and territories that are members of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). It is the practice of including the area code of a telephone number when dialing to initiate a telephone call.
A telephone number is a sequence of digits assigned to a landline telephone ... regulation is mainly through the Canadian Radio-television and ... would be valid, the ...