Toronto will get a new area code next year, the CRTC is reminding residents.
The new number was announced on May 10, 2023, but the CRTC provided new details about the “gradual” rollout in a news release issued on Wednesday.
Area code 942 will join 416, 647, and 437 starting on April 26, 2025.
The introduction of an additional area code follows a decision by the CRTC’s so-called relief planning committee, which determined that the existing varieties of phone numbers in the city were going to be exhausted by April 2026.
“The introduction of a new area code creates millions of additional telephone numbers without affecting the existing numbers,” Kelly T. Walsh, program manager of the Canadian Numbering Administrator, said in a news release. “The new 942 area code will be added to the current area codes already in use in this region and will cover the same geographic area.”
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