Phone prefixes in Drummondville, QC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

45

Telephone numbers covered

450,000

Carriers

17

Area codes

3

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

October 27, 1999

Most recent assignment

March 27, 2025

Drummondville’s share of its area codes

Within area code 819, Drummondville accounts for only 28 of 770 prefixes (3.6%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 211 rate centres. Within area code 873, Drummondville accounts for only 16 of 667 prefixes (2.4%): the code is dominated by Sherbrooke and spread over 162 rate centres. Within area code 468, Drummondville accounts for only 1 of 67 prefixes (1.5%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 57 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds the largest share at 10 prefixes, 22.2% of the total, ahead of 16 other carriers. Code by code: in 819, Bell Canada leads with 9 of 28 prefixes ahead of 11 others; in 873, Iristel Inc. leads with 3 of 16 prefixes ahead of 10 others; Cogeco Connexion Inc. is the only holder in 468. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Drummondville’s 3 area codes, while 10 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

12 of Drummondville’s 45 prefixes (26.7%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: TELUS Mobility, Bell Mobility, Fido Solutions Inc and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless). Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Bell Canada, TELUS Quebec, Iristel Inc and Videotron Ltd. 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

Drummondville’s dated assignments run from 1999 to 2025. The busiest period was 2010–2014, when 10 prefixes went to 6 carriers. 9 prefixes (20%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 5 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Drummondville’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Bell Canada and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless): these carriers made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to TELUS Mobility in 1999. The most recent arrivals are Cogeco Connexion Inc. (2025), Cooptel (2019) and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Cable) (2017), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Drummondville.

Drummondville’s 45 prefixes provide 450,000 numbers, which corresponds to a mid-sized city or a well-established suburb that every major carrier wants a slice of.

No single carrier dominates Drummondville: the leader, Bell Canada, holds only 22.2% of the prefixes against 16 competitors, a sign of a highly fragmented market where cable companies, mobility brands and VoIP providers weigh as much as the incumbent.

Allocation is mature: only 13.9% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2010–2014, and 9 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Drummondville numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

9 undated in the register.

Dialling a Drummondville number

Drummondville is served by 3 overlaid area codes (819, 873 and 468). A 468 number is no more “out of town” than a 819 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Drummondville shares area codes 819, 873 and 468 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Ottawa-Hull, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivieres, Victoriaville, Gatineau, Val-D'Or, Maniwaki and Rouyn-Noranda. The largest of them, Ottawa-Hull, holds 122 prefixes in 468, 819 and 873; the smallest on the list, Plessisville, has just 11.

What a Drummondville number tells you

A number attached to Drummondville tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Quebec, 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 17 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 Quebec area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Drummondville: code 819-470 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 819-470-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Drummondville, Quebec” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Drummondville prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 45 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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