Phone prefixes in Fabre, QC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

February 20, 2013

Most recent assignment

February 20, 2013

Fabre’s share of its area code

Within area code 819, Fabre accounts for only 2 of 770 prefixes (0.3%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 211 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Mobility holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 1 other carrier. Code by code: in 819, Bell Mobility leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others.

Wireless and wireline

1 of Fabre’s 2 prefixes (50.0%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Telebec Ltee. 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

Fabre’s dated assignments run from 2013 to 2013. The busiest period was 2010–2014, when 1 prefixes went to 1 carrier. 1 prefixes (50%) 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 Fabre is flat.

Fabre’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Telebec Ltee: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Bell Mobility in 2013. The most recent arrivals are Bell Mobility (2013), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Fabre.

Fabre 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.

Bell Mobility leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in Fabre: 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 Fabre numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

Dialling a Fabre number

A single area code, 819, covers Fabre, 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 +1 819 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Fabre shares area code 819 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Ottawa-Hull, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivieres, Drummondville, Val-D'Or, Gatineau, Shawinigan and Rouyn-Noranda. The largest of them, Ottawa-Hull, holds 83 prefixes in 819; the smallest on the list, Plessisville, has just 6.

What a Fabre number tells you

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

Reading a register entry for Fabre: code 819-670 is recorded for Bell Mobility, so every 819-670-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Fabre, Quebec” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Fabre prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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