Intraprovincial calls from rate centres with no local calling beyond a small fragment of their own area code were returning intercept messages if dialled as seven digits.
22.
Every competing carrier is given access to blocks of 10, 000 numbers corresponding to a single prefix in every rate centre, no matter how small.
23.
While most rate centres don't need nearly that many numbers, a number is unavailable for reassignment elsewhere once assigned to a CLEC and rate centre.
24.
While most rate centres don't need nearly that many numbers, a number is unavailable for reassignment elsewhere once assigned to a CLEC and rate centre.
25.
Every competitive local exchange carrier received blocks of 10, 000 numbers in every rate centre in which it planned to offer local service, no matter how small.
26.
Larger cities, particularly megacities created through amalgamations in the 1990s and early 2000s, have multiple rate centres which were not combined for years, if at all.
27.
While smaller rate centres normally don't need that many numbers, a number can't be allocated elsewhere once assigned to a CLEC and rate centre.
28.
While smaller rate centres normally don't need that many numbers, a number can't be allocated elsewhere once assigned to a CLEC and rate centre.
29.
A roaming mobile or Internet telephone user is effectively ( like the user of a foreign exchange line ) attached to a distant rate centre far from their physical address.
30.
Larger cities had multiple rate centres, most of which were not amalgamated during the creation of " megacities " in Quebec in 2002 and remain separate to this day.
