VANCOUVER – British Columbia is getting a new area code to add to the three that already exist.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission says area code 236 may be assigned to lead new telephone numbers in B.C. starting June 1, 2013.
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The new area code is needed because the region is expected to run out of telephone numbers by August 2016.
Area code 604 managed to do the job all on its own for the entire province until 1996, when 250 came along to lead phone numbers outside the Greater Vancouver area.
In 2001, area code 778 and 10-digit dialing made their debut to serve Greater Vancouver, before being extended across the province in 2008.
Note to readers: This is a corrected story. A previous version incorrectly reported area code 205 was introduced in 1996.
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