In response to the increasing demand for new phone numbers in British Columbia, The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is adding a new area code to all of B.C.

In response to the increasing demand for new phone numbers in British Columbia, The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is adding a new area code to all of B.C.

According to the people who rob you, (our carriers) we were running the risk of running out of phone numbers within the next few years, so to ease the pressure of the growing phone population they ...

B.C. residents will soon be dialling a new area code, because the current supply is expected to run out two years earlier than originally planned. The new area code will be 236 and will be used ...

VANCOUVER – British Columbia’s new area code, 236, will be available for use across the province starting Saturday, June 1 to help meet the growing demand for phone numbers in the province. The new ...

B.C. was not expected to run out of phone numbers with existing area codes until 2016, but widespread use of wireless devices has changed that. British Columbia’s fourth area code, 236, will be ...

Smartphone and wireless device usage has exploded in British Columbia, to the point that the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) will be introducing a new phone area code to ...