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With Saskatchewan’s two area codes, 306 and 639, projected to be exhausted by June 2022, a third area code has been set aside for the province.

The third code is 474.

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The news was contained in a notice of consultation from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).

The notice establishes an ad hoc relief planning committee for the 306 and 639 area codes.

The committee “may contemplate relief measures that would require some customers to change their telephone numbers,” the notice states.

“The Commission therefore encourages members of the public to participate” in the committee’s activities.

Saskatchewan’s second area code, 639, was rolled out in 2013 — when residents had to get used to 10-digit dialling because everyone wasn’t under the 306 area code anymore. Both area codes cover the entire province.

The Canadian Numbering Administrator will announce the location and time for the committee’s meetings, the CRTC notice says, and publish any related documentation on its website, www.cnac.ca.