Phone prefixes in Dawson City, YT

In numbers

In-service prefixes

4

Telephone numbers covered

40,000

Carriers

3

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

October 27, 2014

Most recent assignment

January 25, 2016

Dawson City’s share of its area code

Within area code 867, Dawson City accounts for only 4 of 258 prefixes (1.6%): the code is dominated by Yellowknife and spread over 75 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Iristel Inc. holds the largest share at 2 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 2 other carriers. Code by code: in 867, Iristel Inc. leads with 2 of 4 prefixes ahead of 2 others.

Wireless and wireline

1 of Dawson City’s 4 prefixes (25.0%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Iristel Inc and Northwestel. 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

Dawson City’s dated assignments run from 2014 to 2016. The busiest period was 2010–2014, when 2 prefixes went to 2 carriers. 1 prefixes (25%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. No prefix has been added since 2020: demand for numbers in Dawson City is flat.

Dawson City’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Northwestel: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Bell Mobility in 2014. The most recent arrivals are Iristel Inc. (2014) and Bell Mobility (2014), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Dawson City.

Dawson City 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.

Iristel Inc. leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 2 competitors have set up in Dawson City: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Allocation is mature: only 0.0% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2010–2014, and 1 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Dawson City numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

1 undated in the register.

Dialling a Dawson City number

A single area code, 867, covers Dawson City, 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 +1 867 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Dawson City shares area code 867 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Yellowknife, Whitehorse, Iqaluit, Inuvik, Behchoko, Tuktoyaktuk, Arviat and Arctic Bay. The largest of them, Yellowknife, holds 35 prefixes in 867; the smallest on the list, Kimmirut, has just 3.

What a Dawson City number tells you

A number attached to Dawson City tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Yukon, most often Iristel Inc.. 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 Yukon area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Dawson City: code 867-991 is recorded for Iristel Inc., so every 867-991-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Dawson City, Yukon” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Dawson City prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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