Phone prefixes in Aupaluk, QC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

April 6, 2017

Most recent assignment

April 6, 2017

Aupaluk’s share of its area codes

Within area code 819, Aupaluk accounts for only 1 of 770 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 211 rate centres. Within area code 873, Aupaluk accounts for only 1 of 667 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Sherbrooke and spread over 162 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 1 other carrier. Code by code: Bell Canada is the only holder in 819; Iristel Inc. is the only holder in 873. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Aupaluk’s 2 area codes, while 2 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

None of Aupaluk’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 2 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Bell Canada and Iristel Inc. A call showing a Aupaluk number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

Aupaluk’s dated assignments run from 2017 to 2017. The busiest period was 2015–2019, 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 Aupaluk is flat.

Aupaluk’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 Iristel Inc. in 2017. The most recent arrivals are Iristel Inc. (2017), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Aupaluk.

Aupaluk 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.

Bell Canada leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in Aupaluk: 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 2015–2019, and 1 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Aupaluk numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

Dialling a Aupaluk number

Aupaluk is served by 2 overlaid area codes (819 and 873). A 873 number is no more “out of town” than a 819 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Aupaluk shares area codes 819 and 873 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Ottawa-Hull, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivieres, Drummondville, Gatineau, Victoriaville, Val-D'Or and Maniwaki. The largest of them, Ottawa-Hull, holds 119 prefixes in 819 and 873; the smallest on the list, Ville-Marie, has just 12.

What a Aupaluk number tells you

A number attached to Aupaluk tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Quebec, most often Bell Canada. 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 Aupaluk: code 819-491 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 819-491-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Aupaluk, Quebec” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Aupaluk prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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