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From: halliday@cc.ubc.ca (laura halliday)
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Subject: Re: Area Codes - a few comments
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Dave Levenson writes:

> I wonder how much difficulty would be caused if the USA and Canada
> were to be assigned different country codes?  This would allow
> re-assignment in the USA of area codes presently assigned in Canada
> (and vice versa) and might push that 1995 date back a few years.

Probably quite a bit...not only would you only liberate a handful
of area codes in the process, you would disrupt important lines
of communication. We Canadians tend to phone the U.S. more than
we phone other provinces - lines of communication are north-south
rather than east-west.

...laura

University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada