Phone prefixes in Burin, NL

In numbers

In-service prefixes

4

Telephone numbers covered

40,000

Carriers

3

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

May 14, 2010

Most recent assignment

June 28, 2022

Burin’s share of its area code

Within area code 709, Burin accounts for only 4 of 630 prefixes (0.6%): the code is dominated by St. John's and spread over 209 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Aliant Telecom (NF) holds the largest share at 2 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 2 other carriers. Code by code: in 709, Aliant Telecom (NF) leads with 2 of 4 prefixes ahead of 2 others.

Wireless and wireline

None of Burin’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 4 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Aliant Telecom (NF), Bragg Communications Inc and Distributel. A call showing a Burin number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

Burin’s dated assignments run from 2010 to 2022. The busiest period was 2010–2014, when 1 prefixes went to 1 carrier. 2 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.

Burin’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Aliant Telecom (NF): this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Bragg Communications Inc. in 2010. The most recent arrivals are Distributel (2022) and Bragg Communications Inc. (2010), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Burin.

Burin has just 4 prefixes (40,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

Aliant Telecom (NF) leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 2 competitors have set up in Burin: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Growth is recent: 50.0% of the dated prefixes were assigned in the last ten years, peaking in 2010–2014. Burin is among the rate centres where demand for numbers is still rising quickly.

2 undated in the register.

Dialling a Burin number

A single area code, 709, covers Burin, 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 +1 709 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Burin shares area code 709 with at least 20 other rate centres, including St. John's, Corner Brook, Clarenville, Carbonear, Gander, Marystown, Bay Roberts and Labrador City - Wabush. The largest of them, St. John's, holds 100 prefixes in 709; the smallest on the list, Glovertown, has just 5.

What a Burin number tells you

A number attached to Burin tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Newfoundland and Labrador, most often Aliant Telecom (NF). It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 3 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 Newfoundland and Labrador area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Burin: code 709-891 is recorded for Aliant Telecom (NF), so every 709-891-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Burin, Newfoundland and Labrador” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Burin prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 4 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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