Telephone numbers in Australia plan (including the "Trunk Access Code"), presented in domestic format. (Geographical region boundaries do not exactly follow State borders.) The current numbering plan would appear to be sufficient to cope with potential increase in demand for services for quite some time to come. The 06 and 09 area codes are completely unused. In addition, each current area code has large number "ranges" unallocated. When dialling from outside Australia, after dialling the appropriate International Access Code it is necessary to dial the Country Code for Australia (61) followed by the nine digit "National 'Significant' Number". (The + symbol is used to
Area code 250 in area code 250 remained unchanged. Three CO prefixes in the 250 area code were reserved for use by Northwestel, as 13 of its 15 switches at the time could not handle multiple area codes, and its system could not accommodate ten-digit-dialling. Area code 236 was implemented as a distributed overlay of area codes 604, 250, and 778 on 1 June 2013. Area code 672 has been reserved for British Columbia once area code 236 is exhausted. Area code 250 Area code 250 is an area code which serves the Canadian province of British Columbia outside the Lower Mainland, including