Phone prefixes in Joliette, QC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

48

Telephone numbers covered

480,000

Carriers

16

Area codes

3

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

September 7, 2000

Most recent assignment

August 20, 2025

Joliette’s share of its area codes

Within area code 450, Joliette accounts for only 27 of 775 prefixes (3.5%): the code is dominated by Granby and spread over 129 rate centres. Within area code 579, Joliette accounts for only 19 of 644 prefixes (3.0%): the code is dominated by Granby and spread over 126 rate centres. Within area code 354, Joliette accounts for only 2 of 56 prefixes (3.6%): the code is dominated by Valleyfield and spread over 49 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds the largest share at 9 prefixes, 18.8% of the total, ahead of 15 other carriers. Code by code: in 450, Bell Canada leads with 8 of 27 prefixes ahead of 9 others; in 579, Iristel Inc. leads with 4 of 19 prefixes ahead of 9 others; in 354, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Joliette’s 3 area codes, while 10 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

14 of Joliette’s 48 prefixes (29.2%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: TELUS Mobility, Bell Mobility, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) and Fido Solutions Inc. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Bell Canada, Videotron Ltd, Iristel Inc and TELUS Quebec. 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

Joliette’s dated assignments run from 2000 to 2025. The busiest period was 2015–2019, when 11 prefixes went to 8 carriers. 8 prefixes (17%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 6 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Joliette’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Bell Canada and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless): these carriers made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to TELUS Mobility in 2000. The most recent arrivals are Cogeco Connexion Inc. (2025), Cooptel (2021) and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Cable) (2017), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Joliette.

Joliette’s 48 prefixes provide 480,000 numbers, which corresponds to a mid-sized city or a well-established suburb that every major carrier wants a slice of.

No single carrier dominates Joliette: the leader, Bell Canada, holds only 18.8% of the prefixes against 15 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 15.0% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2015–2019, and 8 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Joliette numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

8 undated in the register.

Dialling a Joliette number

Joliette is served by 3 overlaid area codes (450, 579 and 354). A 354 number is no more “out of town” than a 450 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Joliette shares area codes 450, 579 and 354 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Granby, St-Jerome, St-Hyacinthe, Longueuil, Ste-Therese, St-Lambert, Sorel and Pont-Viau. The largest of them, Granby, holds 52 prefixes in 354, 450 and 579; the smallest on the list, St-Vincent-de-Paul, has just 17.

What a Joliette number tells you

A number attached to Joliette tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Quebec, most often Bell Canada. It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 16 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 Quebec area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Joliette: code 450-752 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 450-752-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Joliette, Quebec” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Joliette prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 48 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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