British Columbia’s fourth area code, 236, will be introduced next month, after demand for new phone numbers exploded with the use of smartphones and wireless devices. The CRTC will implement the 236 ...

Well, folks. It looks like we've run out of numbers—at least, we're rapidly running out of phone numbers. To meet the needs of communities that are facing this pending phone number shortage, the ...

As British Columbia’s population grows, the number of available cellphone numbers shrinks. As such, the CRTC has announced that the province will receive a brand new area code. As British Columbia’s ...

With its current area codes, British Columbia is expected to run out of telephone numbers by 2016. So, to avert a telephone number shortage, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications ...

B.C. was not expected to run out of phone numbers with existing area codes until 2016, but widespread use of wireless devices has changed that. British Columbia’s fourth area code, 236, will be ...