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  2. Telephone numbers in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Using the format specified by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Recommendation E.164 for telephone numbers, a Canadian number is written as +1NPANXXXXXX, with no spaces, hyphens, or other characters; e.g. +12505550199 .

  3. Caller ID spoofing - Wikipedia

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    Canada. Caller ID spoofing remains legal in Canada, and has recently become so prevalent that the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has "add[ed] an automated message about [the practice] to their fraud-reporting hotline". The CRTC estimates that 40% of the complaints they receive regarding unsolicited calls involve spoofing.

  4. Fictitious telephone number - Wikipedia

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    In North America, the area served by the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) system of area codes, fictitious telephone numbers are usually of the form (XXX) 555-xxxx. The use of 555 numbers in fiction, however, led a desire to assign some of them in the real world, and some of them are no longer suitable for use in fiction.

  5. Area code 604 - Wikipedia

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    Area code 604 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for southwestern British Columbia, Canada. The numbering plan area comprises the Lower Mainland , Sunshine Coast , Howe Sound / Sea to Sky Corridor , Fraser Valley and the lower Fraser Canyon regions.

  6. Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia

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    Kenmore 9392 is a five-pull (1L-4N) small-city telephone number for the Kenmore exchange in Fort Wayne, Indiana. MArket 7032 is a six-digit (2L-4N) telephone number. This format was in use from the 1920s through the 1950s, and was phased out c. 1960. BALdwin 6828 is an urban 3L-4N example, used only in the largest cities before conversion to ...

  7. Telephone numbers in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Canada: North 1 011 1 Several NANP codes; see Telephone numbers in Canada. Caribbean Netherlands: Caribbean 599-3, 4, or 7: 00 Cayman Islands: Caribbean 1-345: 011 1 Chile: South 56: 00 Colombia: South 57: 00 0 Trunk followed by 1 or 3 digit carrier code Costa Rica: Central 506: 00 Cuba: Caribbean 53: 00 CuraƧao: Caribbean 599-9: 00 Dominica ...

  8. Random House of Canada - Wikipedia

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    The Random House Canada imprint published works by Canadian and international authors starting in 1986. [6] Seal Books was founded in 1977, stemming from a partnership between Bantam Books (an American-based company) and McClelland & Stewart. This imprint specializes in reprints of major fiction hardcover titles.

  9. Robocall - Wikipedia

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    A robocall is a phone call that uses a computerized autodialer to deliver a pre-recorded message, as if from a robot. Robocalls are often associated with political and telemarketing phone campaigns, but can also be used for public service, emergency announcements, or scammers.

  10. 555 (telephone number) - Wikipedia

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    555 (telephone number) The telephone number prefix 555 is a central office code in the North American Numbering Plan, used as the leading part of a group of 10,000 telephone numbers, 555-XXXX, in each numbering plan area (NPA) (area code). It has traditionally been used only for the provision of directory assistance, when dialing NPA-555-1212.

  11. Telephone number - Wikipedia

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    In rural areas with magneto crank telephones connected to party lines, the local phone number consisted of the line number plus the ringing pattern of the subscriber. To dial a number such as "3R122" meant making a request to the operator the third party line (if making a call off your own local one), followed by turning the telephone's crank ...