Phone prefixes in Foymount, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

1

Telephone numbers covered

10,000

Carriers

1

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

Foymount’s share of its area code

Within area code 613, Foymount accounts for only 1 of 772 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 132 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds every prefix here. Code by code: Bell Canada is the only holder in 613.

Wireless and wireline

None of Foymount’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 Foymount 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 Foymount’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 Foymount: 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.

Foymount 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 Foymount.

Dialling a Foymount number

A single area code, 613, covers Foymount, 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 +1 613 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Foymount shares area code 613 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Ottawa-Hull, Kingston, Belleville, Kanata-Stittsville, Cornwall, Brockville, Pembroke and Smiths Falls. The largest of them, Ottawa-Hull, holds 321 prefixes in 613; the smallest on the list, Gloucester, has just 4.

What a Foymount number tells you

A number attached to Foymount 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 Foymount: code 613-754 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 613-754-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Foymount, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Foymount prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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