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 | | The change makes way for a new area code, 647, which will be assigned to new numbers and co-exist in the same geographic area as 416. |
 | | Other solutions, such as assigning new area codes to wireless devices, as has been tried in the United States, would have required every cellphone owner to trade in their physical telephone, and could also have backfired if new demand did not come from wireless users. |
 | | Area codes and the central office code (the first three numbers of a seven-digit phone number) will probably be increased four digits each, which will result in 12-digit dialling, he says. |
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