Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax.uwo.ca!telecom-request From: djcl@contact.uucp (woody) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: It is Now Official: 416 to be Split Into 905 Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 91 17:44:30 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 9 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 240, Message 8 of 11 Bell Canada has just announced that the new area code to be formed in splitting 416 will be 905 ... perhaps inferior to another choice like 210 in some respects, but that's the word out in the media as of today. The split will see areas in 416 outside Toronto change to 905 starting in the fall of '93. Mandatory dialing should be complete in early '94. More details and discussion on this later, or from other correspondents.