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| | Are We Going To Run Out Of Area Codes? |
 | | This time around, however, the new area codes will be "overlayed" atop the old, meaning people will have to dial ten digits for all local calls, even those to neighbours sharing the same area code. |
 | | The cna combs a list of available central-office codes and compares them to area codes in each area, then checks to see which ones have already been reserved by other cities under the North American Numbering Plan, which covers all of Canada, the U.S., and many Caribbean nations. |
 | | Selecting new area codes is increasingly difficult as well - the supply of old area codes, which always featured a zero or one as their middle digit, was exhausted in January, 1995. |
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