Phone prefixes in Halifax, NS

In numbers

In-service prefixes

220

Telephone numbers covered

2,200,000

Carriers

15

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

August 12, 1999

Most recent assignment

January 9, 2026

Halifax’s share of its area codes

Within area code 902, Halifax takes 163 of 782 prefixes (20.8%), a substantial slice of a code shared by 174 rate centres, the largest of them Halifax. Within area code 782, Halifax takes 57 of 461 prefixes (12.4%), a substantial slice of a code shared by 143 rate centres, the largest of them Halifax.

Who holds these numbers

Aliant Telecom (NS) holds the largest share at 73 prefixes, 33.2% of the total, ahead of 14 other carriers. Code by code: in 902, Aliant Telecom (NS) leads with 71 of 163 prefixes ahead of 13 others; in 782, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) leads with 16 of 57 prefixes ahead of 10 others. 10 carriers hold prefixes in every one of Halifax’s 2 area codes, while 5 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

94 of Halifax’s 220 prefixes (42.7%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility Aliant, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless), TELUS Mobility and Fido Solutions Inc. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Aliant Telecom (NS), Iristel Inc, Bragg Communications Inc and Fibernetics Corporation. 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

Halifax’s dated assignments run from 1999 to 2026. The busiest period was 2010–2014, when 35 prefixes went to 10 carriers. 72 prefixes (33%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 27 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Halifax’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Aliant Telecom (NS), Bell Mobility Aliant and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless): 4 carriers made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to TELUS Mobility in 1999. The most recent arrivals are IXICA Communications Inc. (2019), Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Cable) (2017) and Distributel (2015), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Halifax.

Its 220 prefixes stand for 2,200,000 possible numbers: Halifax is a large rate centre, the kind that hosts several switching offices and a sizeable business clientele.

No single carrier dominates Halifax: the leader, Aliant Telecom (NS), holds only 33.2% of the prefixes against 14 competitors, a sign of a highly fragmented market where cable companies, mobility brands and VoIP providers weigh as much as the incumbent.

Allocation is mature: only 18.2% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2010–2014, and 72 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Halifax numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

The register also shows 2 prefixes assigned but not yet in service in Halifax (Bell Mobility Aliant and TELUS Mobility): numbers that will start showing up on call displays in the coming months.

72 undated in the register.

Dialling a Halifax number

Halifax is served by 2 overlaid area codes (902 and 782). A 782 number is no more “out of town” than a 902 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Halifax shares area codes 902 and 782 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Charlottetown, Sydney, Truro, Windsor, Amherst, New Glasgow, Kentville and Summerside. The largest of them, Charlottetown, holds 54 prefixes in 782 and 902; the smallest on the list, Port Hawkesbury, has just 12.

What a Halifax number tells you

A number attached to Halifax tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Nova Scotia, most often Aliant Telecom (NS). It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 15 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 Nova Scotia area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Halifax: code 902-244 is recorded for Aliant Telecom (NS), so every 902-244-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Halifax, Nova Scotia” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Halifax prefix

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

What people check and report about Halifax numbers

Searches typed into this site's lookup form since July 28, 2026, plus the verdicts and moderated reports visitors left. A search usually follows a missed call.

Checks

39

Different numbers

39

Different people

36

Had a call from a Halifax number?

No clear pattern in reports on these numbers yet. If a call worried you:

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Allocated prefixes

All 220 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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