Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!telecom-request From: Dave.Leibold@f135.n82.z89.onebdos.UUCP (Dave Leibold) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 416 to Split to 416 and 905, October 4th, 1993 Message-ID: Date: 9 May 91 07:43:00 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: dleibold@attmail.com Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 62 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 352, Message 9 of 12 Some recent notes on 416/905 split postings... Nigel Allen : > (I'm M6G 1V3) while the areas adjacent to Metro Toronto have codes > beginning with L, the postal code boundary coincides with the new area > code boundary. If your postal code begins M, you remain in 416; if > you are now in 416 and your postal code begins with L, you switch to > 905. Postal area M = new area 416 boundary is correct; however, the mapping of postal L = 905 will not be exact. Some postal codes in the Collingwood ON area begin with L, yet are in NPA 705 (to be confused with the new and adjoining NPA 905). Meanwhile, some of the farthest reaches of 416 have municipalities whose postal codes begin with N (southwest Ontario) or K (eastern Ontario). Dunnville is in 416, yet postal codes begin with N1A. Cobourg, also in 416, has postal codes beginning with K9A. Mark Brader: > By the 1991 phone book, the prefixes in Metro Toronto are as follows. > Errors are mine. 461-3,5-7,9 means 461 462 463 465 466 467 469. > Actually, there are many more prefixes than Bell Canada lists in its phone books. There are cellular ones like Cantel's 416-520; then there are pager ones like 416-379. Then there are various test exchanges that occupy space on the numbering plan. It seems likely that Toronto-based cell and page numbers will stay in 416; anything based outside is 905-bound. Bell is also notorious for errors in listing its prefixes. Notice that 416-226 prefix didn't get listed in the '91 Toronto directory, though it is supposed to be active. A 416 prefix chart should be in the Archives ... those in Toronto (or cellular or pager) will remain in 416 after 1993. Any other place name will go to 905. Some other notes about the split: - Pearson International Airport, serving Toronto, will be located in 905; travellers would have to adjust to the code split. - as for the 210 area code I have mentioned in previous posts, it still would have been a better assignment in many respects that 905; the aforementioned similarity with 705 to the north is one shortcoming; the longer rotary dialing needed for all those cross-boundary local calls (905 vs 210) is another (Bell Canada charges a significant monthly premium for tone dialing). Is 210 secretly taken for something already? - there is the "Taco Bell" effect of assigning Mexico's old area code. A recent Howard Johnsons motel guide still lists a Mexico City number with the (905) code, despite its official retirement as such. David Leibold replies: dleibold@attmail.com Dave Leibold - via IMEx node 89:681/1 Dave.Leibold@f135.n82.z89.onebdos.UUCP