Phone prefixes in Fort Hope, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

1

Telephone numbers covered

10,000

Carriers

1

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

Fort Hope’s share of its area code

Within area code 807, Fort Hope accounts for only 1 of 293 prefixes (0.3%): the code is dominated by Thunder Bay and spread over 85 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds every prefix here. Code by code: Bell Canada is the only holder in 807.

Wireless and wireline

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

Bell Canada is the only carrier ever recorded for Fort Hope: 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.

Fort Hope 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: Bell Canada holds every prefix, and no competitor has ever requested a code for Fort Hope.

Dialling a Fort Hope number

A single area code, 807, covers Fort Hope, 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 +1 807 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Fort Hope shares area code 807 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Thunder Bay, Kenora, Fort Frances, Dryden, Marathon, Nipigon, Atikokan and Geraldton. The largest of them, Thunder Bay, holds 67 prefixes in 807; the smallest on the list, Hornepayne, has just 2.

What a Fort Hope number tells you

A number attached to Fort Hope 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 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 an Ontario area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Fort Hope: code 807-242 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 807-242-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Fort Hope, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Fort Hope prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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