Jeslek
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Well, Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, and soon Mexico use a system called the North American Numbering Plan. To call a number within the NANP, you dial country code 1. (yeah, Mexico will soon have country code 1 hehe).
There are currently 12 billion telephone numbers remaining in the NANP. All telephone numbers are in the form of
NPA-NPX-XXXX
where NPA is the area code, NPX is the exchange code, and XXXX is the line number.
With the growth of VoIP and the cellular market, we may hit the limit in 2015 instead of 2030. This has prompted the NANP administration to speed up the technical specifications for expanding the current system.
Right now the idea is to make area codes four digits long. Existing area codes will probably be affixed with a 0. For example, if you are in area code 905 it will become 9050, and area code 416 will become 4160.
A second change will be to make the exchange number also four digits long. Most likely your new exchange code will be prefixed with a number.
So, starting as soon as 2005, you may be dialling say, the Toronto Star's classifieds section:
Original number: 416-777-7777 (yes that is the real number)
New number: 4160-7777-7777 (just an example)
This will make it harder to memorize phone numbers hehe.
There are currently 12 billion telephone numbers remaining in the NANP. All telephone numbers are in the form of
NPA-NPX-XXXX
where NPA is the area code, NPX is the exchange code, and XXXX is the line number.
With the growth of VoIP and the cellular market, we may hit the limit in 2015 instead of 2030. This has prompted the NANP administration to speed up the technical specifications for expanding the current system.
Right now the idea is to make area codes four digits long. Existing area codes will probably be affixed with a 0. For example, if you are in area code 905 it will become 9050, and area code 416 will become 4160.
A second change will be to make the exchange number also four digits long. Most likely your new exchange code will be prefixed with a number.
So, starting as soon as 2005, you may be dialling say, the Toronto Star's classifieds section:
Original number: 416-777-7777 (yes that is the real number)
New number: 4160-7777-7777 (just an example)
This will make it harder to memorize phone numbers hehe.