Phone prefixes in Garden Hill

In numbers

In-service prefixes

4

Telephone numbers covered

40,000

Carriers

3

Area codes

4

Provinces and territories

2

First assignment

February 6, 2018

Most recent assignment

June 21, 2022

Provinces and territories

This name is used for separate rate centres in 2 provinces. The prefixes below share a name in the CNAC register but belong to different communities.

• Manitoba — 2 prefixes
• Ontario — 2 prefixes

Garden Hill’s share of its area codes

Within area code 204, Garden Hill accounts for only 1 of 781 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Winnipeg and spread over 245 rate centres. Within area code 365, Garden Hill accounts for only 1 of 702 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Markham and spread over 88 rate centres. Within area code 431, Garden Hill accounts for only 1 of 571 prefixes (0.2%): the code is dominated by Winnipeg and spread over 146 rate centres. Within area code 905, Garden Hill accounts for only 1 of 773 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Hamilton and spread over 94 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

TELUS Integrated Communications holds the largest share at 2 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 2 other carriers. Code by code: MTS Inc. is the only holder in 204; TELUS Integrated Communications is the only holder in 365; TELUS Integrated Communications is the only holder in 431; Bell Canada is the only holder in 905. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Garden Hill’s 4 area codes, while 2 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

None of Garden Hill’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 4 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them TELUS Integrated Communications, Bell Canada and MTS Inc. A call showing a Garden Hill number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

Garden Hill’s dated assignments run from 2018 to 2022. The busiest period was 2015–2019, when 1 prefixes went to 1 carrier. 2 prefixes (50%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 1 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Garden Hill’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Bell Canada and MTS Inc: these carriers made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to TELUS Integrated Communications in 2018. The most recent arrivals are TELUS Integrated Communications (2018), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Garden Hill.

Garden Hill has just 4 prefixes (40,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

TELUS Integrated Communications leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 2 competitors have set up in Garden Hill: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Growth is recent: 50.0% of the dated prefixes were assigned in the last ten years, peaking in 2015–2019. Garden Hill is among the rate centres where demand for numbers is still rising quickly.

2 undated in the register.

Dialling a Garden Hill number

Garden Hill is served by 4 overlaid area codes (204, 365, 431 and 905). A 905 number is no more “out of town” than a 204 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Garden Hill shares area codes 204, 365, 431 and 905 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Winnipeg, Hamilton, Brampton, Oshawa, St. Catharines-Thorold, Markham, Cooksville and Oakville. The largest of them, Winnipeg, holds 386 prefixes in 204 and 431; the smallest on the list, Selkirk, has just 24.

What a Garden Hill number tells you

A number attached to Garden Hill tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Manitoba, most often TELUS Integrated Communications. It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 3 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 Manitoba area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Garden Hill: code 365-243 is recorded for TELUS Integrated Communications, so every 365-243-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Garden Hill, Manitoba” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Garden Hill prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 4 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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