area code 250 is located at hyder, alaska in the united states.
area code 250 is located at hyder, alaska in the united states.
where is area code 250 in the united states?
hyder , alaska
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area code 250 is an area code which serves the canadian province of british columbia outside the lower mainland, including vancouver island–home to the provincial capital, victoria–and the province's interior. the area code also serves the united states community of hyder, alaska, which sits along the border near the town of stewart. the incumbent local exchange carriers are telus, northwestel and citywest in the city of prince rupert. 









































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area code 250
area code 250 was created on october 19, 1996, as a split of area code 604, which was retained by the lower mainland. prior to 1996, 604 had been the sole area code in british columbia for almost half a century. while british columbia would have likely needed another area code in any event due to the province's growth in the second half of the 20th century, the split was hastened by canada's system of number allocation. canada does not use number pooling as a relief measure. instead, each competitive local exchange carrier is allocated blocks of 10,000 numbers (corresponding to a single prefix) in each rate centre where it plans to offer service, even in the smallest hamlets. once a prefix is assigned to a carrier and rate centre, it cannot be moved elsewhere, even when a rate centre has more than enough numbers to serve its customers. this has resulted in thousands of wasted numbers, a problem exacerbated by the proliferation first of fax machines and pagers and then cell phones.
area code 250