Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request Date: Tue, 7 May 1991 00:01:00 -0400 From: Tony Harminc Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 416 to Split to 416 and 905, October 4th, 1993 Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 344, Message 9 of 10 Lines: 26 > If you have the postal address of a place, it will be > in 416 if and only if its postal code starts with the letter M. > (Ignoring any anomalies at the Metro boundary, that is.) Except for companies like mine who plan to run an entire building (data centre) on FX lines across the boundary. So even though our data centre address is in Markham and has an "L" postal code, the phone numbers will all remain in 416. This brings up several potential glitches: what happens when someone dials 911 (ANI/ALI will show the address of our Toronto building where the PBX trunks are; callers trying to look up our number in the Markham directory won't find it (unless we pay for a listing there); etc. > << list of Metro Toronto prefixes deleted >> I wonder what's going to happen to cellular prefixes when the 905 split happens. Currently I don't think most cellular subscribers think too hard about exactly where their phone is based. Perhaps some Metro subscribers will discover that they've really been outside Toronto all this time. Tony Harminc (Reminder: only my eMail address is in Montreal; I'm in Toronto)