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tory 10 -digit dialing begins this week
w226 area code for 519 region will also begin during next three months
Susan Hundertmark
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While all Tuckersmith
Communications customers had to
follow mandatory 10 -digit dialing on
Monday, it could take until. Friday
for everyone in the 519 area code to
be switched over, says Tuckersmith
Communications manager Sharon
Chuter.
"We've sent out several letters to
our customers and it's been all over
the media. A lot of people have done
it already - they got sick of the mes-
sage but I know there will be peo-
ple who waited until the last
moment," she says of the change
from seven to 10 digit phone num-
bers.
While the recorded message
telling callers they must add the
area code as part of the phone num-
ber they are calling is no longer
being used, callers who don't use
the 10 -digit number will not be con-
nected.
Those who have not switched to
10 -digit numbers on their dial-up
internet service or
on their alarm t } I
systems will find
those services do 4
h ,
not work this
week. .;.
"Ninety-eight
per cent of calls
are being dialed `I
with the 10 -digits y,as>r
and we believe
most people
understand and
are using it. It's
been quite suc-
cessful,"
uc cessful," says
Johanne Lemay, x
spokesperson for
t h e
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Telecommunications Alliance, made
up of Bell, Rogers, Telus, Fido,
Thlebec, Allstream and Videotron.
After a four-month transition
period, 10 -digit dialing has been
introduced to respond to the heavy
demand for new
phone numbers
in certain
regions a
demand that
continues to
rise among
, businesses and
i s'• � .� r consumers
alike, due to
both population
growth and the
popularity of
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communica-
tions
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wireless, inter-
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519 area code
where numbers are running out, a
new 226 area code will be given to
new phone numbers within the 519
region from Tobermory to Windsor
to Brantford.
Lemay says the 226 will overlay
the 519 area instead of dividing the
region in half since it is more expen-
sive to ask half of the region to
change their area code from 519 to
226.
"If we do an overlay, none of the
existing phone numbers change.
There are not many complaints. It's
an annoyance but people are accept-
ing it's a 10 -digit world now," she
says.
Chuter says she's heard no local
complaints about the new area code
but is expecting some once it begins.
"It's not a choice. We are running
out of phone numbers and will
exhaust the 519 numbers soon," she
says.
"It's confusing but we're told it,
will be much less confusing than
keeping London at the 519 area
code and making the outlying
regions take the new area code,"
says Chuter, referring to an earlier
decision s to give
Toronto's core the 416
area code and making
the surrounding
region change to 905.
Lamay says the 226
area code will begin to
be issued to new
phone numbers some-
time during the next
three months.
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man
charged.
A 24 -year-old
Central Huron man
has been charged
after he was stopped
by Huron OPP for a
vehicle infraction on
Oct. 10th at approxi-
mately 1:30 a.m. in
Walton.
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police his motorcycle
did not have insur-
ance.
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to have a small quan-
tity of marijuana.
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uled to attend court
in Goderich on Dec.
12, facing one coun of
driving a motor vehi-
cle with no insurance
and one count of pos-
session of marijuana.