Phone prefixes in Grand Beach, MB

In numbers

In-service prefixes

5

Telephone numbers covered

50,000

Carriers

4

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

September 25, 2012

Most recent assignment

June 21, 2022

Grand Beach’s share of its area codes

Within area code 431, Grand Beach accounts for only 4 of 572 prefixes (0.7%): the code is dominated by Winnipeg and spread over 146 rate centres. Within area code 204, Grand Beach accounts for only 1 of 781 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Winnipeg and spread over 245 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

MTS Inc. holds the largest share at 2 prefixes, 40.0% of the total, ahead of 3 other carriers. Code by code: in 431, MTS Inc. leads with 1 of 4 prefixes ahead of 3 others; MTS Inc. is the only holder in 204. 1 carrier holds prefixes in every one of Grand Beach’s 2 area codes, while 3 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

2 of Grand Beach’s 5 prefixes (40.0%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility and TELUS Mobility. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by MTS Inc and TELUS Integrated Communications. 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

Grand Beach’s dated assignments run from 2012 to 2022. The busiest period was 2015–2019, 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. Since 2020 another 1 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Grand Beach’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to MTS Inc: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to MTS Inc. in 2012. The most recent arrivals are TELUS Integrated Communications (2022), Bell Mobility (2017) and TELUS Mobility (2016), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Grand Beach.

Grand Beach 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.

MTS Inc. leads with 40.0% of the prefixes, but 3 competitors have set up in Grand Beach: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Demand remains steady: 25.0% of the dated prefixes go back to the last ten years, the most active period being 2015–2019. The rate centre is growing at a regular rather than explosive pace.

1 undated in the register.

Dialling a Grand Beach number

Grand Beach is served by 2 overlaid area codes (431 and 204). A 204 number is no more “out of town” than a 431 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Grand Beach shares area codes 431 and 204 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Winnipeg, Brandon, Portage La Prairie, Steinbach, Oakbank, Stonewall, Dauphin and Selkirk. The largest of them, Winnipeg, holds 387 prefixes in 204 and 431; the smallest on the list, The Pas, has just 10.

What a Grand Beach number tells you

A number attached to Grand Beach tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Manitoba, most often MTS Inc.. 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 Manitoba area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Grand Beach: code 431-228 is recorded for MTS Inc., so every 431-228-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Grand Beach, Manitoba” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Grand Beach prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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