Phone prefixes in Baie-St-Paul, QC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

8

Telephone numbers covered

80,000

Carriers

6

Area codes

3

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

July 13, 2000

Most recent assignment

May 15, 2025

Baie-St-Paul’s share of its area codes

Within area code 418, Baie-St-Paul accounts for only 6 of 777 prefixes (0.8%): the code is dominated by Quebec and spread over 258 rate centres. Within area code 367, Baie-St-Paul accounts for only 1 of 233 prefixes (0.4%): the code is dominated by Quebec and spread over 111 rate centres. Within area code 581, Baie-St-Paul accounts for only 1 of 778 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Quebec and spread over 232 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds the largest share at 2 prefixes, 25.0% of the total, ahead of 5 other carriers. Code by code: in 418, Bell Canada leads with 2 of 6 prefixes ahead of 3 others; TELUS Quebec is the only holder in 367; Telecommunications Xittel Inc is the only holder in 581. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Baie-St-Paul’s 3 area codes, while 6 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

2 of Baie-St-Paul’s 8 prefixes (25.0%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless). Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Bell Canada, Videotron Ltd, TELUS Quebec and Telecommunications Xittel Inc. 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

Baie-St-Paul’s dated assignments run from 2000 to 2025. The busiest period was 2000–2004, when 2 prefixes went to 2 carriers. 2 prefixes (25%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 1 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Baie-St-Paul’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 Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) in 2000. The most recent arrivals are TELUS Quebec (2025), Telecommunications Xittel Inc (2011) and Bell Mobility (2005), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Baie-St-Paul.

Baie-St-Paul has just 8 prefixes (80,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

No single carrier dominates Baie-St-Paul: the leader, Bell Canada, holds only 25.0% of the prefixes against 5 competitors, a sign of a highly fragmented market where cable companies, mobility brands and VoIP providers weigh as much as the incumbent.

Allocation is mature: only 16.7% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2000–2004, and 2 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Baie-St-Paul numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

2 undated in the register.

Dialling a Baie-St-Paul number

Baie-St-Paul is served by 3 overlaid area codes (418, 367 and 581). A 581 number is no more “out of town” than a 418 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Baie-St-Paul shares area codes 418, 367 and 581 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Quebec, Chicoutimi, Alma, Rimouski, Riviere-du-Loup, Thetford Mines, Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce and Levis. The largest of them, Quebec, holds 282 prefixes in 367, 418 and 581; the smallest on the list, Saint-Henri-de-Levis, has just 16.

What a Baie-St-Paul number tells you

A number attached to Baie-St-Paul 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 6 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 Baie-St-Paul: code 418-240 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 418-240-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Baie-St-Paul, Quebec” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Baie-St-Paul prefix

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

Had a call from a Baie-St-Paul number?

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

1. Call back on a number you trust

   If a caller says they are your bank, the Canada Revenue Agency, a courier or your phone company, hang up and call the organization on the number from its website or your statement, never the number that called you. Caller ID can be faked.

2. Report the fraud

   Report the call or text to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre online or at 1-888-495-8501. If you lost money or gave out personal details, tell your bank first, then your local police.

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3. Register on the National Do Not Call List

   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 8 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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