Phone prefixes in Kenora, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

31

Telephone numbers covered

310,000

Carriers

5

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

November 1, 2004

Most recent assignment

April 1, 2025

Kenora’s share of its area code

Within area code 807, Kenora takes 31 of 293 prefixes (10.6%), a substantial slice of a code shared by 85 rate centres, the largest of them Thunder Bay.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Mobility holds the largest share at 20 prefixes, 64.5% of the total, ahead of 4 other carriers. Code by code: in 807, Bell Mobility leads with 20 of 31 prefixes ahead of 4 others.

Wireless and wireline

25 of Kenora’s 31 prefixes (80.6%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) and TELUS Mobility. 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

Kenora’s dated assignments run from 2004 to 2025. The busiest period was 2020–2024, when 15 prefixes went to 2 carriers. 3 prefixes (10%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 19 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Kenora’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 KMTS, a division of Bell Canada in 2004. The most recent arrivals are TBayTel (2019), TELUS Mobility (2012) and Bell Mobility (2010), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Kenora.

Kenora’s 31 prefixes provide 310,000 numbers, which corresponds to a mid-sized city or a well-established suburb that every major carrier wants a slice of.

Bell Mobility leads with 64.5% of the prefixes, but 4 competitors have set up in Kenora: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Growth is recent: 67.9% of the dated prefixes were assigned in the last ten years, peaking in 2020–2024. Kenora is among the rate centres where demand for numbers is still rising quickly.

The register also shows 4 prefixes assigned but not yet in service in Kenora (Bell Mobility): numbers that will start showing up on call displays in the coming months.

3 undated in the register.

Dialling a Kenora number

A single area code, 807, covers Kenora, 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

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

What a Kenora number tells you

A number attached to Kenora tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Ontario, most often Bell Mobility. It does not tell you where the handset is today: most of Kenora’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 Kenora: code 807-330 is recorded for Bell Mobility, so every 807-330-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Kenora, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Kenora prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 31 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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