Phone prefixes in Browns Flat, NB

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

May 25, 2021

Most recent assignment

May 25, 2021

Browns Flat’s share of its area code

Within area code 506, Browns Flat accounts for only 2 of 677 prefixes (0.3%): the code is dominated by Moncton and spread over 88 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Aliant Telecom(NB) holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 1 other carrier. Code by code: in 506, Aliant Telecom(NB) leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others.

Wireless and wireline

None of Browns Flat’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 2 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Aliant Telecom(NB) and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Cable). A call showing a Browns Flat number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

Browns Flat’s dated assignments run from 2021 to 2021. 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.

Browns Flat’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Aliant Telecom(NB): this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Cable) in 2021. The most recent arrivals are Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Cable) (2021), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Browns Flat.

Browns Flat 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.

Aliant Telecom(NB) leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in Browns Flat: 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. Browns Flat is among the rate centres where demand for numbers is still rising quickly.

Dialling a Browns Flat number

A single area code, 506, covers Browns Flat, 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 +1 506 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Browns Flat shares area code 506 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Moncton, Saint John, Fredericton, Miramichi, Bathurst, Edmundston, Campbellton and Tracadie. The largest of them, Moncton, holds 79 prefixes in 506; the smallest on the list, Petitcodiac, has just 9.

What a Browns Flat number tells you

A number attached to Browns Flat tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in New Brunswick, most often Aliant Telecom(NB). 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 New Brunswick area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Browns Flat: code 506-468 is recorded for Aliant Telecom(NB), so every 506-468-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Browns Flat, New Brunswick” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Browns Flat prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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