Talk:Area codes 613, 343, and 753

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Why is 10-digit dialing being introduced in Ottawa if it is not expected to be overlayed untill 2012? 6 years just to get used to dialing 10 digits?  ADAM•THE•ATOM™  07:06, 3 June 2006 (UTC)


 * The only thing that legitimately needed to require ten-digit dialling would be calls to another area code (as a 613 number in Ottawa will soon be able to have the same last seven digits as an 819 number in Hull). Ten digits in Kingston, Ontario (population 116000, not a local call to anything outside 613, not a local call to most of 613) makes even less sense than the mess that has been created in Ottawa, yet this is what the telcos are inflicting upon us. Utterly useless. --carlb 03:39, 3 October 2006 (UTC)


 * They should have just split the thing. The City of Ottawa should have held 613, and the other counties split off to a new code (343?). CrazyC83 23:55, 11 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Code protection between Ottawa and Gatineau was crimping what Bell Canada/Canadian Numbering Administrator could assign as the cities grew. The only codes that they could assign in the Ottawa-Gatineau local calling region were running out, and the ones not in use in the region were in use elsewhere in the 613 and/or 819 areas. The only way to expand was to end code protection, and to allow the dialing of calls across the river was to mandate 10-digit dialing. The unpalatable alternative would have been to sever the local calling between the two cities.


 * Now, with 10-digit dialing, CNA can assign whatever prefixes are still unused in the 613 area, even if they duplicate Gatineau, while whatever prefixes are still unused in the 819 area can be assigned in 819, even if they duplicate Ottawa. The exception is five prefixes in Gatineau that are used by the Federal Government. These remain protected so that government numbers are not duplicated in 613 by non-government numbers, if people dial the wrong area code. GBC (talk) 08:51, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Where is the central office code 832? I lived in Ottawa, and that's what I had. - Anonymous —Preceding unsigned comment added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)


 * From www.localcallingguide.com/lca_prefix.php?npa=613&nxx=832 it looks to be: 613-832 	Constance Bay 	ON 	CCBAON07RS0 	8051 BELL CANADA - ON
 * From www.telcodata.us/view-switch-detail-by-clli?clli=CCBAON07RS0 the central office is a Northern Telecom Remote Switching Centre installed at 3897 DUNROBIN RD, CONSTANCE BAY, ON and www.localcallingguide.com/lca_prefix.php?switch=CCBAON07RS0 indicates this switch and four others in other villages are controlled remotely by an exchange in Kanata (KNTAON16CG0).
 * There is also a list of all exchanges (by area code) at http://cnac.ca/data/ac613.htm which may be useful. K7L (talk) 01:09, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Merge with Area code 343
I tagged this article and Area code 343 for merging today. As far as I can tell, the boundaries for the new 343 code match those of 613, and if so merging is appropriate and consistent with other articles on similar situations, eg; Area codes 905 and 289 and Area codes 416 and 647. Thoughts?  PK T (alk)  19:00, 9 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Agreed... PhilthyBear (talk) 19:30, 9 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Support. 343 is an overlay of 613, just as the others noted by PKT. Mind  matrix  20:13, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Support However we should rename it to Area code 613 and 343 as above ones

It appears that an editor has already gone and done it.  PK T (alk)  15:02, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Might have been too soon though, although it is in testing right now so technically it has been activated (unlike 249 and 579). CrazyC83 (talk) 21:12, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Frontenac Islands and Greater Napanee
There is no exchange named "Greater Napanee". The exchanges are Napanee (354) and Adolphustown (373).

There is likewise no exchange named "Frontenac Islands". The exchange is Wolfe Island (385). Howe Island uses numbers from a mainland city exchange Kingston (54x).

Exchanges don't correspond to incorporated municipalities, past or present. A long list of points like Kanata and Orléans are municipally in Ottawa but have only a subset of Ottawa's local calling area. For that matter, area code 905 still has no exchange named "Mississauga", although there is a Cooksville, Malton, Port Credit, Clarkson and Streetsville.

The list of "Some Central Office Codes and communities in area code 613" is a mess. Napanee and Greater Napanee both are listed, but with differing (and incomplete) lists of exchanges? The list should be either by exchange name or host municipality, not both intermixed.

For that matter, exchange 666 is fictional. Why is it on the list if it's not on CNAC? K7L (talk) 00:57, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

POV issues
The whole section that begins with "The problems were aggravated by Canada's inefficient number allocation system" reads like a lot of uncited opinion to me. Can we clean it up or remove it? --184.161.106.203 (talk) 12:30, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

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Name change to include 753
The articles name should be changed to Area codes 613, 343, and 753 as a new area code overlay has been added. This seems to be common place as you can see from Area codes 905, 289, and 365 and Area codes 519, 226, and 548 articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.51.85.186 (talk) 02:56, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Renaming the article should be done on or after 3/26/22. kbrose (talk) 14:38, 20 January 2022 (UTC)