Northern Ontario, Get Ready For 10-Digit Local Dialing And A New Area Code

crtcNorthern Ontario is about to get a change in their telecommunications systems as the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced yesterday that effective March 12, 2011 10-digit local dialing will be required for all local calls in the (705) area code region of northern Ontario. To prevent exhaustion of the communications system the CRTC has also announced a new area code will be implemented, (249) for the region of northern Ontario.



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