{"id":707179,"date":"2026-06-01T05:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707179\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T05:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:31:33","slug":"a-large-swath-of-quebec-is-about-to-get-a-new-area-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707179\/","title":{"rendered":"A large swath of Quebec is about to get a new area code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Bell Canada will be introducing the 273 area code as of next year, it announced in a news release Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The new code will include areas currently covered by the codes 418, 367 and 581. Those include population centres such as Quebec City, Saguenay, L\u00e9vis, and Rimouski. <\/p>\n<p>Bell says the new numbers are needed to keep up with demand for telephone service. <\/p>\n<p>Bell will continue assigning numbers with the existing area codes until they are exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>Existing lines will keep their current area codes while the new numbers will be introduced gradually starting on Feb. 27, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Short codes such as 311, 811, and 911 won&#8217;t be affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-707179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}