Talk:Area code 807

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Does anyone know why this area code was created? There are so few phone lines in 807 that there must have been some geographical reason or perhaps the time zone or the fact that it was serviced by Thunder Bay Telephone and not Bell. Anyone know for sure? Blacknail 17:19, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

It was created to free up local codes for growing areas in Central Ontario like Barrie/Orillia, Sudbury/Sault Ste Marie, Peterborough, etc. Instead of inconveniencing them with having to use a new area, they gave one to the Northwest which impacted the least amount of people. 807 actually does have a fair amount of local codes, as each rural community tends to have it's own local code. The numbers listed here are barely have of the local codes in use up here. Vidioman 02:15, 31 March 2007 (UTC)