Phone prefixes in Keewatin, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

3

Telephone numbers covered

30,000

Carriers

3

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

March 16, 2020

Most recent assignment

May 30, 2025

Keewatin’s share of its area code

Within area code 807, Keewatin 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

None of Keewatin’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 3 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Bell Canada, KMTS, a division of Bell Canada and TBayTel. A call showing a Keewatin number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

Keewatin’s dated assignments run from 2020 to 2025. The busiest period was 2020–2024, 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. Since 2020 another 2 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Keewatin’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to KMTS, a division of Bell Canada: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to TBayTel in 2020. The most recent arrivals are Bell Canada (2025) and TBayTel (2020), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Keewatin.

Keewatin 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 Keewatin: 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.

Growth is recent: 100.0% of the dated prefixes were assigned in the last ten years, peaking in 2020–2024. Keewatin is among the rate centres where demand for numbers is still rising quickly.

1 undated in the register.

Dialling a Keewatin number

A single area code, 807, covers Keewatin, 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

Keewatin 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 Keewatin number tells you

A number attached to Keewatin 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 3 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 Keewatin: code 807-241 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 807-241-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Keewatin, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Keewatin prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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