Phone prefixes in Frampton, QC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

5

Telephone numbers covered

50,000

Carriers

4

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

March 24, 2011

Most recent assignment

September 20, 2018

Frampton’s share of its area codes

Within area code 581, Frampton accounts for only 4 of 778 prefixes (0.5%): the code is dominated by Quebec and spread over 232 rate centres. Within area code 418, Frampton accounts for only 1 of 777 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Quebec and spread over 258 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Videotron Ltd. holds the largest share at 2 prefixes, 40.0% of the total, ahead of 3 other carriers. Code by code: in 581, Videotron Ltd. leads with 2 of 4 prefixes ahead of 2 others; TELUS Quebec is the only holder in 418. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Frampton’s 2 area codes, while 4 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

None of Frampton’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 5 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Videotron Ltd, Bell Canada, TELUS Quebec and Telecommunications Xittel Inc. A call showing a Frampton number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

Frampton’s dated assignments run from 2011 to 2018. The busiest period was 2010–2014, when 2 prefixes went to 2 carriers. 1 prefixes (20%) 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 Frampton is flat.

Frampton’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to TELUS Quebec: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Videotron Ltd. in 2011. The most recent arrivals are Bell Canada (2018), Telecommunications Xittel Inc (2012) and Videotron Ltd. (2011), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Frampton.

Frampton has just 5 prefixes (50,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

Videotron Ltd. leads with 40.0% of the prefixes, but 3 competitors have set up in Frampton: 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 Frampton numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

1 undated in the register.

Dialling a Frampton number

Frampton is served by 2 overlaid area codes (581 and 418). A 418 number is no more “out of town” than a 581 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Frampton shares area codes 581 and 418 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Quebec, Chicoutimi, Rimouski, Alma, Riviere-du-Loup, Thetford Mines, Levis and Saint-Georges-de-Beauce. The largest of them, Quebec, holds 245 prefixes in 418 and 581; the smallest on the list, Chibougamau, has just 11.

What a Frampton number tells you

A number attached to Frampton tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Quebec, most often Videotron Ltd.. It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 4 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 Frampton: code 581-227 is recorded for Videotron Ltd., so every 581-227-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Frampton, Quebec” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Frampton prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 5 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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