Phone prefixes in Haliburton, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

9

Telephone numbers covered

90,000

Carriers

4

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

February 18, 2002

Most recent assignment

September 24, 2024

Haliburton’s share of its area codes

Within area code 705, Haliburton accounts for only 5 of 770 prefixes (0.6%): the code is dominated by Barrie and spread over 203 rate centres. Within area code 249, Haliburton accounts for only 4 of 585 prefixes (0.7%): the code is dominated by Sudbury and spread over 176 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Iristel Inc. holds the largest share at 4 prefixes, 44.4% of the total, ahead of 3 other carriers. Code by code: in 705, Bell Canada leads with 2 of 5 prefixes ahead of 3 others; in 249, Iristel Inc. leads with 3 of 4 prefixes ahead of 1 others. 2 carriers hold prefixes in every one of Haliburton’s 2 area codes, while 2 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

2 of Haliburton’s 9 prefixes (22.2%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility and TELUS Mobility. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Iristel Inc and Bell Canada. 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

Haliburton’s dated assignments run from 2002 to 2024. The busiest period was 2015–2019, when 3 prefixes went to 2 carriers. 1 prefixes (11%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 2 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Haliburton’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Bell Canada: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Bell Canada in 2002. The most recent arrivals are Iristel Inc. (2015), TELUS Mobility (2007) and Bell Mobility (2006), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Haliburton.

Haliburton has just 9 prefixes (90,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

Iristel Inc. leads with 44.4% of the prefixes, but 3 competitors have set up in Haliburton: 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 Haliburton number

Haliburton is served by 2 overlaid area codes (705 and 249). A 249 number is no more “out of town” than a 705 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Haliburton shares area codes 705 and 249 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Barrie, Sudbury, Peterborough, Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay, Huntsville, Collingwood and Lindsay. The largest of them, Barrie, holds 92 prefixes in 249 and 705; the smallest on the list, Kirkland Lake, has just 12.

What a Haliburton number tells you

A number attached to Haliburton tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Ontario, most often Iristel 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 an Ontario area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Haliburton: code 705-809 is recorded for Iristel Inc., so every 705-809-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Haliburton, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Haliburton prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 9 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

Elsewhere in Ontario