Phone prefixes in Aston-Jonction, QC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

September 7, 2006

Most recent assignment

September 7, 2006

Aston-Jonction’s share of its area code

Within area code 819, Aston-Jonction accounts for only 2 of 770 prefixes (0.3%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 211 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

9164-3122 Quebec inc holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 1 other carrier. Code by code: in 819, 9164-3122 Quebec inc leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others.

Wireless and wireline

None of Aston-Jonction’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 2 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them 9164-3122 Quebec inc and Telebec Ltee. A call showing a Aston-Jonction number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

Aston-Jonction’s dated assignments run from 2006 to 2006. The busiest period was 2005–2009, when 1 prefixes went to 1 carrier. 1 prefixes (50%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. No prefix has been added since 2020: demand for numbers in Aston-Jonction is flat.

Aston-Jonction’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Telebec Ltee: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to 9164-3122 Quebec inc in 2006. The most recent arrivals are 9164-3122 Quebec inc (2006), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Aston-Jonction.

Aston-Jonction has just 2 prefixes (20,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

9164-3122 Quebec inc leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in Aston-Jonction: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Allocation is mature: only 0.0% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2005–2009, and 1 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Aston-Jonction numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

Dialling a Aston-Jonction number

A single area code, 819, covers Aston-Jonction, and it is not overlaid with any other code on this territory: one of the few parts of Canada where seven-digit local dialling may still work. From abroad, dial +1 819 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Aston-Jonction shares area code 819 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Ottawa-Hull, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivieres, Drummondville, Val-D'Or, Gatineau, Shawinigan and Rouyn-Noranda. The largest of them, Ottawa-Hull, holds 83 prefixes in 819; the smallest on the list, Plessisville, has just 6.

What a Aston-Jonction number tells you

A number attached to Aston-Jonction tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Quebec, most often 9164-3122 Quebec inc. It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 2 carriers present here or to a VoIP service usable anywhere. Nor does it tell you who is calling: caller ID can be spoofed, and a Quebec area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Aston-Jonction: code 819-256 is recorded for 9164-3122 Quebec inc, so every 819-256-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Aston-Jonction, Quebec” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Aston-Jonction prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 2 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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