[VoiceOps] Area code 886

[John R Levine]

> I think you misread that 886 is reserved for TF. It was released from TF reservation in 2003 and us currently unassigned so could pop up anywhere as a new code.

If that is the case, you should tell NANPA.  I just downloaded their NPA 
database, dated today.  It says:

NPA_ID,type_of_code,ASSIGNABLE,EXPLANATION,RESERVED,ASSIGNED,ASSIGNMENT_DT,USE,LOCATION,COUNTRY,IN_SERVICE,IN_SERVICE_DT,STATUS,PLANNING_LETTERS,"NOTES",OVERLAY,OVERLAY_COMPLEX,PARENT_NPA_ID,SERVICE,TIME_ZONE,AREA_SERVED,MAP,IN_JEOPARDY,RELIEF_PLANNING_IN_PROGRESS,HOME_NPA_LOCAL_CALLS,HOME_NPA_TOLL_CALLS,FOREIGN_NPA_LOCAL_CALLS,FOREIGN_NPA_TOLL_CALLS,PERM_HNPA_LOCAL_CALLS,PERM_HNPA_TOLL_CALLS,PERM_HNPA_FOREIGN_LOCAL_CALLS,"DIALING_PLAN_NOTES"
886,General Purpose Code,No,Set aside for toll free,No,No,,N,,,N,,,,"",No,,,Toll-Free,,,,No,No,,,,,,,,""

R's,
John


>> On Jul 24, 2020, at 9:22 AM, John Levine <johnl at taugh.com> wrote:
>>
>> In article <CAM3TTh1u6C0+uwDSWrHfYvh-y=aAzOdF_9-eqevHo93w-DWJrw at mail.gmail.com> you write:
>>> Does anyone know if area code 886 was allocated to Canada and if yes where
>>> in Canada? We were just told by an international vendor that it is a new
>>> area code in Canada yet I can't find anything on it.
>>
>> You can check the definitive NANPA list at https://nationalnanpa.com/
>>
>> It says that 886 is reserved for toll-free expansion. Your vendor is
>> confused.
>>
>> A long time ago, codes 880, 881, and 882 were used for paid
>> international calls to North American 800, 888, and 877 numbers, so
>> they might be telling you a garbled version of that. That hack went
>> away 15 years ago and those codes are now also reserved for toll-free
>> expansion.