Phone prefixes in Barrie, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

95

Telephone numbers covered

950,000

Carriers

18

Area codes

3

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

October 27, 1999

Most recent assignment

August 20, 2024

Barrie’s share of its area codes

Within area code 705, Barrie accounts for only 71 of 770 prefixes (9.2%): the code is dominated by Barrie and spread over 203 rate centres. Within area code 249, Barrie accounts for only 21 of 586 prefixes (3.6%): the code is dominated by Sudbury and spread over 176 rate centres. Within area code 683, Barrie accounts for only 3 of 81 prefixes (3.7%): the code is dominated by Lindsay and spread over 58 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds the largest share at 18 prefixes, 18.9% of the total, ahead of 17 other carriers. Code by code: in 705, Bell Canada leads with 17 of 71 prefixes ahead of 16 others; in 249, Iristel Inc. leads with 8 of 21 prefixes ahead of 8 others; in 683, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) leads with 1 of 3 prefixes ahead of 2 others. 2 carriers hold prefixes in every one of Barrie’s 3 area codes, while 9 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

40 of Barrie’s 95 prefixes (42.1%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless), TELUS Mobility, Bell Mobility and Fido Solutions Inc. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Bell Canada, Iristel Inc, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Cable) 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

Barrie’s dated assignments run from 1999 to 2024. The busiest period was 2010–2014, when 20 prefixes went to 11 carriers. 21 prefixes (22%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 10 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Barrie’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Bell Canada, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) and TELUS Mobility: 5 carriers made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Bell Canada in 1999. The most recent arrivals are IXICA Communications Inc. (2020), Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (2019) and InnSysVoice Corp (2015), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Barrie.

Barrie’s 95 prefixes provide 950,000 numbers, which corresponds to a mid-sized city or a well-established suburb that every major carrier wants a slice of.

No single carrier dominates Barrie: the leader, Bell Canada, holds only 18.9% of the prefixes against 17 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 13.5% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2010–2014, and 21 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Barrie numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

The register also shows 1 prefix assigned but not yet in service in Barrie (Bell Mobility): numbers that will start showing up on call displays in the coming months.

21 undated in the register.

Dialling a Barrie number

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

The numbering neighbourhood

Barrie shares area codes 705, 249 and 683 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Sudbury, Peterborough, Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay, Huntsville, Lindsay, Collingwood and Orillia. The largest of them, Sudbury, holds 75 prefixes in 249 and 705; the smallest on the list, Kirkland Lake, has just 12.

What a Barrie number tells you

A number attached to Barrie tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Ontario, 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 18 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 Barrie: code 705-715 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 705-715-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Barrie, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Barrie prefix

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

What people check and report about Barrie numbers

Searches typed into this site's lookup form since July 28, 2026, plus the verdicts and moderated reports visitors left. A search usually follows a missed call.

Checks

27

Different numbers

27

Different people

26

Had a call from a Barrie number?

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Allocated prefixes

All 95 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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