Phone prefixes in Cartwright

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

2

Provinces and territories

This name is used for separate rate centres in 2 provinces. The prefixes below share a name in the CNAC register but belong to different communities.

• Manitoba — 1 prefixes
• Newfoundland and Labrador — 1 prefixes

Cartwright’s share of its area codes

Within area code 204, Cartwright accounts for only 1 of 781 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Winnipeg and spread over 245 rate centres. Within area code 709, Cartwright accounts for only 1 of 630 prefixes (0.2%): 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 1 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 1 other carrier. Code by code: MTS Inc. is the only holder in 204; Aliant Telecom (NF) is the only holder in 709. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Cartwright’s 2 area codes, while 2 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

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

How the allocation was built up

The register dates none of Cartwright’s assignments: all 2 prefixes predate CNAC’s record-keeping, the signature of an old, settled network where nothing has been added in decades.

Cartwright’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Aliant Telecom (NF) and MTS Inc: these carriers made up the landscape before competition arrived.

Cartwright 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 (NF) leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in Cartwright: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Dialling a Cartwright number

Cartwright is served by 2 overlaid area codes (204 and 709). A 709 number is no more “out of town” than a 204 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Cartwright shares area codes 204 and 709 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Winnipeg, St. John's, Brandon, Corner Brook, Portage La Prairie, Steinbach, Clarenville and Selkirk. The largest of them, Winnipeg, holds 241 prefixes in 204; the smallest on the list, Long Pond, has just 9.

What a Cartwright number tells you

A number attached to Cartwright tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Manitoba, 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 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 Cartwright: code 709-938 is recorded for Aliant Telecom (NF), so every 709-938-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Cartwright, Manitoba” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Cartwright prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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