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Ontario dials up new area codes

OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Ontario’s rapidly growing 905 region will become the first territory in Canada to have a third area code.The CRTC has announced that new telephone numbers assigned in the regions around Toronto may be given the area code 365 starting March 25, 2013, in order to manage the telephone number shortage that will affect the areas currently covered by area codes 289 and 905.These measures are being implemented in response to the Canadian Numbering Administrator's warning that the region is expected to run out of telephone numbers by March 2014. Existing customers will keep their current area code and phone...