Phone prefixes in Kanata-Stittsville, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

39

Telephone numbers covered

390,000

Carriers

15

Area codes

3

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

June 13, 2000

Most recent assignment

September 25, 2024

Kanata-Stittsville’s share of its area codes

Within area code 613, Kanata-Stittsville accounts for only 26 of 772 prefixes (3.4%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 132 rate centres. Within area code 343, Kanata-Stittsville accounts for only 12 of 641 prefixes (1.9%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 116 rate centres. Within area code 753, Kanata-Stittsville accounts for only 1 of 103 prefixes (1.0%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 62 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds the largest share at 10 prefixes, 25.6% of the total, ahead of 14 other carriers. Code by code: in 613, Bell Canada leads with 9 of 26 prefixes ahead of 8 others; in 343, Iristel Inc. leads with 3 of 12 prefixes ahead of 9 others; IXICA Communications Inc. is the only holder in 753. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Kanata-Stittsville’s 3 area codes, while 10 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

1 of Kanata-Stittsville’s 39 prefixes (2.6%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Fido Solutions Inc. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Bell Canada, Iristel Inc, TELUS Integrated Communications 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

Kanata-Stittsville’s dated assignments run from 2000 to 2024. The busiest period was 2005–2009, when 8 prefixes went to 7 carriers. 7 prefixes (18%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 4 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Kanata-Stittsville’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 Zayo Canada Inc. in 2000. The most recent arrivals are IXICA Communications Inc. (2018), Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc. (2016) and Distributel (2016), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Kanata-Stittsville.

Kanata-Stittsville’s 39 prefixes provide 390,000 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 Kanata-Stittsville: the leader, Bell Canada, holds only 25.6% 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 12.5% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2005–2009, and 7 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Kanata-Stittsville numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

7 undated in the register.

Dialling a Kanata-Stittsville number

Kanata-Stittsville is served by 3 overlaid area codes (613, 343 and 753). A 753 number is no more “out of town” than a 613 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Kanata-Stittsville shares area codes 613, 343 and 753 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Ottawa-Hull, Kingston, Belleville, Cornwall, Brockville, Smiths Falls, Bancroft and Carleton Place. The largest of them, Ottawa-Hull, holds 441 prefixes in 343, 613 and 753; the smallest on the list, Merrickville, has just 11.

What a Kanata-Stittsville number tells you

A number attached to Kanata-Stittsville 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: 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 an Ontario area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Kanata-Stittsville: code 613-254 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 613-254-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Kanata-Stittsville, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Kanata-Stittsville prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 39 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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