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Originally Posted by eternallyme
819 will likely add a new code as well early in the next decade.
If 613 was split along the lines of the telephone exchanges sitting in the City of Ottawa, the outlying 343 would likely last quite a while (probably at least 2050), while Ottawa would need a second code before 2030, sooner than with the overlay.
Why feel bad for the outlying areas? Everyone outside Ottawa would have had to change their phone numbers (from 613-xxx-xxxx to 343-xxx-xxxx). That would be quite a burden for businesses and especially the small phone companies in the outlying areas.
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Ya, I didn't get that reasoning either. I'm sure there are plenty of homes in the rural areas that have had the same number for 40 years whose residents wouldn't be too happy about having to give them up. It's just more grumble-worthy fodder for complaining about being oppressed by Ottawa.
It would have made more sense, when you come down to it, for urban Ottawa to get the new area code and to cease handing out 613 numbers in urban Ottawa so as to maximize their life elsewhere since there's not really a compelling case to hand out 343 numbers to anyone outside Ottawa's urban boundary given that most of the growth in phone numbers is from Ottawa and not the rest of the area code.