Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Fri, 10 May 91 12:28:44 PDT From: "John R. Covert 10-May-1991 1502" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: RE: Calling 905 from 416 Area 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 349, Message 7 of 10 Lines: 22 > Amusingly, when I dial 1+905+7D from here (416) I get routed to a > message from 619 saying that the dialing procedure for Mexico has > changed - use 011+52+, in English and Spanish. Somehow you'd think a > switch in what will be the new 905 would be the first to be updated! Something is wrong here. When I dial 1+905 from a REAL 416 phone, I immediately get the recording "We're sorry, your call cannot be completed as dialled." Right after the 1-905. No more digits required. And this has always been the case, even before 905 and 706 were taken out of service. The old 905 and 706 area codes NEVER worked from Canada; they were special area codes that worked from the U.S. only. I suspect that Tony is calling from a PBX with some sort of smart routing. Apparently his PBX has some lines to some point in the U.S., which it uses for calls to non-Canadian area codes. john