Phone prefixes in Ignace, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

3

Telephone numbers covered

30,000

Carriers

3

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

April 13, 2004

Most recent assignment

September 24, 2014

Ignace’s share of its area code

Within area code 807, Ignace accounts for only 3 of 293 prefixes (1.0%): the code is dominated by Thunder Bay and spread over 85 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 33.3% of the total, ahead of 2 other carriers. Code by code: in 807, Bell Canada leads with 1 of 3 prefixes ahead of 2 others.

Wireless and wireline

2 of Ignace’s 3 prefixes (66.7%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless). That makes this a mostly mobile rate centre, which is typical of recent allocations: new prefixes go overwhelmingly to cellphones. 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

Ignace’s dated assignments run from 2004 to 2014. The busiest period was 2000–2004, when 1 prefixes went to 1 carrier. 1 prefixes (33%) 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 Ignace is flat.

Ignace’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 Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) in 2004. The most recent arrivals are Bell Mobility (2014) and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) (2004), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Ignace.

Ignace has just 3 prefixes (30,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

No single carrier dominates Ignace: the leader, Bell Canada, holds only 33.3% of the prefixes against 2 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 0.0% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2000–2004, and 1 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Ignace numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

1 undated in the register.

Dialling a Ignace number

A single area code, 807, covers Ignace, and it is not overlaid with any other code on this territory: one of the few parts of Canada where seven-digit local dialling may still work. From abroad, dial +1 807 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Ignace shares area code 807 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Thunder Bay, Kenora, Fort Frances, Dryden, Marathon, Nipigon, Atikokan and Geraldton. The largest of them, Thunder Bay, holds 67 prefixes in 807; the smallest on the list, Jaffray-Melick, has just 2.

What a Ignace number tells you

A number attached to Ignace tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Ontario, most often Bell Canada. It does not tell you where the handset is today: most of Ignace’s prefixes are mobile, and a cellphone keeps its number when its owner moves across the country. 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 Ignace: code 807-934 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 807-934-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Ignace, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Ignace prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 3 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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