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- Area_code_250 abstract "Area code 250 is an area code for most of the Canadian province of British Columbia, including Vancouver Island. It was created on October 19, 1996 as a split of area code 604, which was retained by the Lower Mainland.The area code also serves the United States community of Hyder, Alaska, which sits along the border near the town of Stewart.The incumbent local exchange carriers are Telus, Northwestel and CityWest in the city of Prince Rupert.By the mid-2000s, 250 was already on the verge of exhaustion, due primarily to Canada's inefficient system of number allocation. Canada does not use number pooling as a relief measure; each carrier is allocated blocks of 10,000 numbers in each rate centre where it plans to offer service, even in the smallest hamlets. While most regions don't need nearly that many numbers, once a prefix is assigned to a rate centre, it can't be allocated elsewhere. This resulted in thousands of wasted numbers, a problem exacerbated by the proliferation of cell phones and pagers. Rather than employ another split, it was decided to make 778, which had been an overlay area code for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, an overlay for the entire province starting on July 4, 2007. Overlays have become the preferred method of area code relief in Canada; no area codes have been split since 1999. However, it is likely that an overlay would have been implemented in any event, as the region's carriers did not want to force their customers (particularly in rural areas) to change their numbers for the second time in a decade.".
- Area_code_250 wikiPageExternalLink IL%2095-08-007.pdf.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageExternalLink 56th-anniversary-areacodes.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageExternalLink canadian_area_codes.htm.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageExternalLink COCodeStatus_NPA236.txt.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageExternalLink COCodeStatus_NPA250.txt.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageExternalLink COCodeStatus_NPA778.txt.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageExternalLink relief_250.htm.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageID "3493427".
- Area_code_250 wikiPageLength "13451".
- Area_code_250 wikiPageOutDegree "152".
- Area_code_250 wikiPageRevisionID "702150701".
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Area_code_208.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Area_code_360.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Area_code_403.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Area_code_406.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Area_code_509.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Area_code_587.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Area_code_604.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Area_code_780.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Area_code_867.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Area_code_907.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Area_codes_778_and_236.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Armstrong,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Barriere,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Bella_Bella,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Bralorne.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Brexton.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Bridge_River,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Cache_Creek,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Campbell_River,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Canada–United_States_border.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_Numbering_Administration_Consortium.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_Radio-television_and_Telecommunications_Commission.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Castlegar,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Category:1996_introductions.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Category:Area_codes_in_Alaska.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Category:Area_codes_in_Canada.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Category:Communications_in_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Cedar,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Chemainus.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Chetwynd,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink CityWest.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Clearwater,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Cobble_Hill,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Comox,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Courtenay,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Cowichan_Valley.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Cranbrook,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Creston,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Cumberland,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Dawson_Creek.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Denman_Island.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Duncan,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Elkford.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Enderby,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Fanny_Bay.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Fernie,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Fort_Nelson,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Fort_St._James.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Fort_St._John,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Fraser_Valley_Regional_District.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Fruitvale,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Galiano_Island.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Gold_Bridge.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Gold_River,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Golden,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Grand_Forks,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Gulf_Islands.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Gun_Lake_(British_Columbia).
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Hazelton,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Hixon,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Hornby_Island.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Houston,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Hudsons_Hope.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Hyder,_Alaska.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Incumbent_local_exchange_carrier.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Invermere,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Jordan_River,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Kamloops.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Kaslo.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Kelowna.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Kimberley,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Kitimat.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Kitwanga.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Kootenays.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Ladysmith,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Cowichan.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Lantzville.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Lillooet.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink List_of_North_American_Numbering_Plan_area_codes.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Logan_Lake.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Lower_Mainland.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Mayne_Island.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Merritt,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Metro_Vancouver.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Midway,_British_Columbia.
- Area_code_250 wikiPageWikiLink Nakusp.