Phone prefixes in Algoma Mills, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

12

Telephone numbers covered

120,000

Carriers

7

Area codes

3

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

August 15, 2005

Most recent assignment

September 7, 2023

Algoma Mills’s share of its area codes

Within area code 249, Algoma Mills accounts for only 5 of 585 prefixes (0.9%): the code is dominated by Sudbury and spread over 176 rate centres. Within area code 705, Algoma Mills accounts for only 4 of 770 prefixes (0.5%): the code is dominated by Barrie and spread over 203 rate centres. Within area code 683, Algoma Mills accounts for only 3 of 80 prefixes (3.8%): the code is dominated by Lindsay and spread over 57 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Iristel Inc. holds the largest share at 6 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 6 other carriers. Code by code: in 249, Iristel Inc. leads with 3 of 5 prefixes ahead of 2 others; in 705, Bell Canada leads with 1 of 4 prefixes ahead of 3 others; Iristel Inc. is the only holder in 683. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Algoma Mills’s 3 area codes, while 6 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

2 of Algoma Mills’s 12 prefixes (16.7%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility and TELUS Mobility. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Iristel Inc, Bell Canada, Bragg Communications Inc and Fibernetics Corporation. This is a sort by name, not a licence lookup, and a mobile prefix may have been ported to another network since.

How the allocation was built up

Algoma Mills’s dated assignments run from 2005 to 2023. The busiest period was 2020–2024, when 4 prefixes went to 2 carriers. 1 prefixes (8%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 4 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Algoma Mills’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Bell Canada: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Bell Mobility in 2005. The most recent arrivals are Fibernetics Corporation (2022), Iristel Inc. (2016) and TELUS Integrated Communications (2012), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Algoma Mills.

Algoma Mills has only 12 prefixes, or 120,000 numbers: a small rate centre, where the arrival of a single new carrier visibly changes the landscape.

Iristel Inc. leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 6 competitors have set up in Algoma Mills: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Demand remains steady: 36.4% of the dated prefixes go back to the last ten years, the most active period being 2020–2024. The rate centre is growing at a regular rather than explosive pace.

1 undated in the register.

Dialling a Algoma Mills number

Algoma Mills is served by 3 overlaid area codes (249, 705 and 683). A 683 number is no more “out of town” than a 249 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Algoma Mills shares area codes 249, 705 and 683 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Barrie, Sudbury, Peterborough, Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay, Huntsville, Lindsay and Collingwood. The largest of them, Barrie, holds 95 prefixes in 249, 683 and 705; the smallest on the list, Kirkland Lake, has just 12.

What a Algoma Mills number tells you

A number attached to Algoma Mills tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Ontario, most often Iristel Inc.. It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 7 carriers present here or to a VoIP service usable anywhere. Nor does it tell you who is calling: caller ID can be spoofed, and an Ontario area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Algoma Mills: code 249-500 is recorded for Iristel Inc., so every 249-500-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Algoma Mills, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Algoma Mills prefix

Each row is an in-service central-office code recorded for Algoma Mills, with its original holder and year of assignment.

Had a call from a Algoma Mills number?

No clear pattern in reports on these numbers yet. If a call worried you:

1. Call back on a number you trust

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   Registering a landline or mobile on the National DNCL is free. Registered charities, political parties, newspapers and companies you already do business with may still call.

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4. Forward suspicious texts to 7726

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Allocated prefixes

All 12 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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