Phone prefixes in Cooksville, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

77

Telephone numbers covered

770,000

Carriers

15

Area codes

4

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

January 31, 2000

Most recent assignment

September 13, 2024

Cooksville’s share of its area codes

Within area code 905, Cooksville accounts for only 48 of 773 prefixes (6.2%): the code is dominated by Hamilton and spread over 94 rate centres. Within area code 289, Cooksville accounts for only 19 of 772 prefixes (2.5%): the code is dominated by Hamilton and spread over 87 rate centres. Within area code 365, Cooksville accounts for only 7 of 704 prefixes (1.0%): the code is dominated by Markham and spread over 88 rate centres. Within area code 742, Cooksville accounts for only 3 of 146 prefixes (2.1%): the code is dominated by Brampton and spread over 68 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds the largest share at 38 prefixes, 49.4% of the total, ahead of 14 other carriers. Code by code: in 905, Bell Canada leads with 36 of 48 prefixes ahead of 5 others; in 289, TELUS Integrated Communications leads with 3 of 19 prefixes ahead of 10 others; in 365, Bell Canada leads with 1 of 7 prefixes ahead of 6 others; in 742, Iristel Inc. leads with 1 of 3 prefixes ahead of 2 others. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Cooksville’s 4 area codes, while 6 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

2 of Cooksville’s 77 prefixes (2.6%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Fido Solutions Inc. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Bell Canada, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Cable), TELUS Integrated Communications and Zayo Canada Inc. 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

Cooksville’s dated assignments run from 2000 to 2024. The busiest period was 2000–2004, when 12 prefixes went to 5 carriers. 35 prefixes (45%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 6 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Cooksville’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Bell Canada, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Cable) and Zayo Canada Inc: these carriers made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Cable) in 2000. The most recent arrivals are FGLTEL Inc. (2022), Beanfield Technologies Inc. (2021) and TekSavvy Solutions Inc (2020), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Cooksville.

Cooksville’s 77 prefixes provide 770,000 numbers, which corresponds to a mid-sized city or a well-established suburb that every major carrier wants a slice of.

Bell Canada leads with 49.4% of the prefixes, but 14 competitors have set up in Cooksville: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Allocation is mature: only 14.3% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2000–2004, and 35 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Cooksville numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

35 undated in the register.

Dialling a Cooksville number

Cooksville is served by 4 overlaid area codes (905, 289, 365 and 742). A 742 number is no more “out of town” than a 905 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Cooksville shares area codes 905, 289, 365 and 742 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Hamilton, Brampton, Oshawa, St. Catharines-Thorold, Oakville, Markham, Ajax-Pickering and Thornhill. The largest of them, Hamilton, holds 221 prefixes in 289, 365, 742 and 905; the smallest on the list, Maple, has just 28.

What a Cooksville number tells you

A number attached to Cooksville 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 15 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 Cooksville: code 905-206 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 905-206-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Cooksville, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Cooksville prefix

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

What people check and report about Cooksville numbers

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Allocated prefixes

All 77 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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