<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">That's a bit hard to parse but it appears to also say, "set aside for toll free" = NO</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">NANPA's own announcement confirms 886 (and 889) was eliminated from toll free pool in 2001 and released back to unused inventory in 2003-</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div><font face="monospace"><a href="https://www.nationalnanpa.com/pdf/PL_329.pdf">https://www.nationalnanpa.com/pdf/PL_329.pdf</a></font><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 10:08 AM John R Levine <<a href="mailto:johnl@taugh.com">johnl@taugh.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> 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.<br>
<br>
If that is the case, you should tell NANPA.  I just downloaded their NPA <br>
database, dated today.  It says:<br>
<br>
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"<br>
886,General Purpose Code,No,Set aside for toll free,No,No,,N,,,N,,,,"",No,,,Toll-Free,,,,No,No,,,,,,,,""<br>
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R's,<br>
John<br>
<br>
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>> On Jul 24, 2020, at 9:22 AM, John Levine <<a href="mailto:johnl@taugh.com" target="_blank">johnl@taugh.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> In article <CAM3TTh1u6C0+uwDSWrHfYvh-y=<a href="mailto:aAzOdF_9-eqevHo93w-DWJrw@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">aAzOdF_9-eqevHo93w-DWJrw@mail.gmail.com</a>> you write:<br>
>>> Does anyone know if area code 886 was allocated to Canada and if yes where<br>
>>> in Canada? We were just told by an international vendor that it is a new<br>
>>> area code in Canada yet I can't find anything on it.<br>
>><br>
>> You can check the definitive NANPA list at <a href="https://nationalnanpa.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://nationalnanpa.com/</a><br>
>><br>
>> It says that 886 is reserved for toll-free expansion. Your vendor is<br>
>> confused.<br>
>><br>
>> A long time ago, codes 880, 881, and 882 were used for paid<br>
>> international calls to North American 800, 888, and 877 numbers, so<br>
>> they might be telling you a garbled version of that. That hack went<br>
>> away 15 years ago and those codes are now also reserved for toll-free<br>
>> expansion.</blockquote></div>