Phone prefixes in Baldur, MB

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

May 27, 2022

Most recent assignment

May 27, 2022

Baldur’s share of its area codes

Within area code 204, Baldur accounts for only 1 of 781 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Winnipeg and spread over 245 rate centres. Within area code 431, Baldur accounts for only 1 of 571 prefixes (0.2%): the code is dominated by Winnipeg and spread over 146 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

MTS Inc. holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 1 other carrier. Code by code: MTS Inc. is the only holder in 204; RFNow Inc. is the only holder in 431. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Baldur’s 2 area codes, while 2 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

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

How the allocation was built up

Baldur’s dated assignments run from 2022 to 2022. The busiest period was 2020–2024, 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. Since 2020 another 1 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Baldur’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to MTS Inc: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to RFNow Inc. in 2022. The most recent arrivals are RFNow Inc. (2022), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Baldur.

Baldur 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.

MTS Inc. leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in Baldur: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Growth is recent: 100.0% of the dated prefixes were assigned in the last ten years, peaking in 2020–2024. Baldur is among the rate centres where demand for numbers is still rising quickly.

Dialling a Baldur number

Baldur is served by 2 overlaid area codes (204 and 431). A 431 number is no more “out of town” than a 204 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Baldur shares area codes 204 and 431 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Winnipeg, Brandon, Portage La Prairie, Steinbach, Oakbank, Stonewall, Dauphin and Selkirk. The largest of them, Winnipeg, holds 386 prefixes in 204 and 431; the smallest on the list, The Pas, has just 10.

What a Baldur number tells you

A number attached to Baldur tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Manitoba, most often MTS 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 Manitoba area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Baldur: code 204-535 is recorded for MTS Inc., so every 204-535-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Baldur, Manitoba” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Baldur prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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