Phone prefixes in Kirkland Lake, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

12

Telephone numbers covered

120,000

Carriers

8

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

July 18, 2002

Most recent assignment

January 23, 2023

Kirkland Lake’s share of its area codes

Within area code 705, Kirkland Lake accounts for only 7 of 770 prefixes (0.9%): the code is dominated by Barrie and spread over 203 rate centres. Within area code 249, Kirkland Lake accounts for only 5 of 585 prefixes (0.9%): the code is dominated by Sudbury and spread over 176 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

TELUS Mobility holds the largest share at 3 prefixes, 25.0% of the total, ahead of 7 other carriers. Code by code: in 705, Northern Telephone Ltd. leads with 2 of 7 prefixes ahead of 5 others; in 249, TELUS Mobility leads with 2 of 5 prefixes ahead of 3 others. 2 carriers hold prefixes in every one of Kirkland Lake’s 2 area codes, while 6 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

6 of Kirkland Lake’s 12 prefixes (50.0%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: TELUS Mobility, Bell Mobility, Fido Solutions Inc and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless). Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Bragg Communications Inc, Northern Telephone Ltd, ExaTEL Inc and TELUS Integrated Communications. 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

Kirkland Lake’s dated assignments run from 2002 to 2023. The busiest period was 2010–2014, when 3 prefixes went to 3 carriers. 2 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 1 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Kirkland Lake’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Northern Telephone Ltd: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) in 2002. The most recent arrivals are TELUS Integrated Communications (2023), Fido Solutions Inc. (2013) and Bragg Communications Inc. (2011), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Kirkland Lake.

Kirkland Lake has only 12 prefixes, or 120,000 numbers: a small rate centre, where the arrival of a single new carrier visibly changes the landscape.

No single carrier dominates Kirkland Lake: the leader, TELUS Mobility, holds only 25.0% of the prefixes against 7 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 10.0% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2010–2014, and 2 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Kirkland Lake numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

2 undated in the register.

Dialling a Kirkland Lake number

Kirkland Lake is served by 2 overlaid area codes (705 and 249). A 249 number is no more “out of town” than a 705 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Kirkland Lake shares area codes 705 and 249 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Barrie, Sudbury, Peterborough, Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay, Huntsville, Collingwood and Lindsay. The largest of them, Barrie, holds 92 prefixes in 249 and 705; the smallest on the list, New Liskeard, has just 11.

What a Kirkland Lake number tells you

A number attached to Kirkland Lake tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Ontario, most often TELUS Mobility. It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 8 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 Kirkland Lake: code 705-962 is recorded for TELUS Mobility, so every 705-962-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Kirkland Lake, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Kirkland Lake prefix

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

Had a call from a Kirkland Lake number?

No clear pattern in reports on these numbers yet. If a call worried you:

1. Call back on a number you trust

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2. Report the fraud

   Report the call or text to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre online or at 1-888-495-8501. If you lost money or gave out personal details, tell your bank first, then your local police.

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   Registering a landline or mobile on the National DNCL is free. Registered charities, political parties, newspapers and companies you already do business with may still call.

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4. Forward suspicious texts to 7726

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Allocated prefixes

All 12 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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