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.