[VoiceOps] Area code 886

[Brandon Svec]

That's a bit hard to parse but it appears to also say, "set aside for toll
free" = NO

NANPA's own announcement confirms 886 (and 889) was eliminated from toll
free pool in 2001 and released back to unused inventory in 2003-
https://www.nationalnanpa.com/pdf/PL_329.pdf



On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 10:08 AM John R Levine <johnl at taugh.com> wrote:

> > 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.
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