Life as we know it in much of Northeastearn and Central Ontario is about to change; ten digit dialing is coming to the 705. Because of the proliferation of cell phone the CRTC estimates that there is only about a year of 705 numbers left to give out. As of March 19, the CRTC will begin implementing the new 249 area code that will overlay the 705 region. From Jan. 15 to March 19 callers will receive a message reminding them to add the area code to their calls. After March 19, seven digit number will no longer be connected.
From Manitoulin Island to Timmins to Orillia, dialing the area code before any local call will become mandatory.
While this may seem like an easy transition to make, I had a friend in college who was unable to figure out why she could call her parents long distance, but couldn't order up a local pizza shop. Living in a dorm, pizza was one of the only local, out or Rez calls she made. For months she chalked up her inability to order to being too tipsy to get the pizza number right before realizing that Hamilton, the city she had moved to, had ten-digit dialing. Here is hoping Ontarians in general fair better.
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