What’s different about Canadian Numbers?

The only difference is that we can’t provide the free temporary service for customers in Canada. There really isn’t any other major difference. The default coverage area for most toll free numbers in the US is usually the 48 states, so Canadians can’t just dial numbers to see if they’re actively used. On the other hand many Canadian 800 numbers aren’t accessible from the US either. That’s why we label the Canadian Resporgs in the Instant 800 Lookup.

See also Canadian toll free services

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    Bob says:
    April 13, 2008 at 9:39 am

    Need your insight on making this number work in europe, north america, central america, south america, and maybe africa. I also would like to have some calls sent to other phone numbers, maybe.

    Thank You,
    Bob

      Bill Quimby (197 comments.) says:
      April 13, 2008 at 10:53 am

      Bob,

      Toll free numbers are only accessible within the North American Numbering Plan, which is basically the US, Canada, and a few small territories. Our toll free numbers aren’t able to be reached from anywhere that you need to dial a country code to reach the US. There are some dial around codes that you can use for certain countries to pay for the cost to get a call to the US and still access a toll free number here. But there is no universal solution for that.

      You can also forward our toll free calls basically anywhere in the world too. It’s not even that much money to forward calls to many modern countries around the world. But it doesn’t sound like that is necessarily what you are thinking of. In terms of routing calls to different numbers you can only do that enhanced voicemail services such as Telcan.net’s Callture service. They are also good for international forwarding too.

      Regular toll free service just forwards the calls to a specific number, but the enhanced voicemail services send the calls to a voicemail system that can control and route calls much more than regular toll free service. I hope that helps.

      Bill Quimby

        Gordon Ross says:
        July 5, 2008 at 1:31 pm

        Is it possible to split a number between the US and Canada? For example, a local painting company owns an 800 number in Texas but does not deal nationally let alone internationally; Is it possible to open this number up for a Canadian business if the incoming calls originate from Canadian area codes?

        Gordon

          Bill Quimby (197 comments.) says:
          July 5, 2008 at 7:27 pm

          Gordon,

          There will only be one owner, but it might be possible to work out something with that company to route calls from another area to a different number. That doesn’t mean it’s likely because it’s certainly not very likely or easy to work that type of situation out or to make it last. It’s not possible to split it completely but it’s not impossible to come up with a sharing arrangement. We don’t work that out because it’s harder than most customers would think. But it’s not impossible.

          Bill

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