Phone prefixes in Ekati, NT

In numbers

In-service prefixes

1

Telephone numbers covered

10,000

Carriers

1

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

Ekati’s share of its area code

Within area code 867, Ekati accounts for only 1 of 258 prefixes (0.4%): the code is dominated by Yellowknife and spread over 75 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Northwestel holds every prefix here. Code by code: Northwestel is the only holder in 867.

Wireless and wireline

None of Ekati’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 1 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Northwestel. A call showing a Ekati 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 Ekati’s assignments: all 1 prefixes predate CNAC’s record-keeping, the signature of an old, settled network where nothing has been added in decades.

Northwestel is the only carrier ever recorded for Ekati: no competitor has obtained a prefix here. A single-carrier rate centre is typical of small communities where only the incumbent ever built a network.

Ekati has just 1 prefix (10,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

The local market is an allocation monopoly: Northwestel holds every prefix, and no competitor has ever requested a code for Ekati.

Dialling a Ekati number

A single area code, 867, covers Ekati, 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

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

What a Ekati number tells you

A number attached to Ekati tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Northwest Territories, most often Northwestel. It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 1 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 Northwest Territories area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Ekati: code 867-880 is recorded for Northwestel, so every 867-880-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Ekati, Northwest Territories” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Ekati prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 1 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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