Phone prefixes in Labrador City - Wabush, NL

In numbers

In-service prefixes

10

Telephone numbers covered

100,000

Carriers

4

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

November 18, 2005

Most recent assignment

August 18, 2022

Labrador City - Wabush’s share of its area code

Within area code 709, Labrador City - Wabush accounts for only 10 of 631 prefixes (1.6%): the code is dominated by St. John's and spread over 209 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Aliant Telecom (NF) holds the largest share at 5 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 3 other carriers. Code by code: in 709, Aliant Telecom (NF) leads with 5 of 10 prefixes ahead of 3 others.

Wireless and wireline

3 of Labrador City - Wabush’s 10 prefixes (30.0%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility Aliant and TELUS Mobility. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Aliant Telecom (NF) 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

Labrador City - Wabush’s dated assignments run from 2005 to 2022. The busiest period was 2005–2009, when 3 prefixes went to 3 carriers. 3 prefixes (30%) 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.

Labrador City - Wabush’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Aliant Telecom (NF): this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Bell Mobility Aliant in 2005. The most recent arrivals are Aliant Telecom (NF) (2014), TELUS Mobility (2008) and TELUS Integrated Communications (2006), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Labrador City - Wabush.

Labrador City - Wabush has only 10 prefixes, or 100,000 numbers: a small rate centre, where the arrival of a single new carrier visibly changes the landscape.

Aliant Telecom (NF) leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 3 competitors have set up in Labrador City - Wabush: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Allocation is mature: only 14.3% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2005–2009, and 3 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Labrador City - Wabush numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

3 undated in the register.

Dialling a Labrador City - Wabush number

A single area code, 709, covers Labrador City - Wabush, 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 +1 709 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Labrador City - Wabush shares area code 709 with at least 20 other rate centres, including St. John's, Corner Brook, Clarenville, Carbonear, Gander, Marystown, Bay Roberts and Deer Lake. The largest of them, St. John's, holds 100 prefixes in 709; the smallest on the list, Grand Bank, has just 5.

What a Labrador City - Wabush number tells you

A number attached to Labrador City - Wabush tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Newfoundland and Labrador, most often Aliant Telecom (NF). It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 4 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 Newfoundland and Labrador area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Labrador City - Wabush: code 709-282 is recorded for Aliant Telecom (NF), so every 709-282-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Labrador City - Wabush, Newfoundland and Labrador” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Labrador City - Wabush prefix

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

Had a call from a Labrador City - Wabush number?

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

1. Call back on a number you trust

   If a caller says they are your bank, the Canada Revenue Agency, a courier or your phone company, hang up and call the organization on the number from its website or your statement, never the number that called you. Caller ID can be faked.

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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3. Register on the National Do Not Call List

   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

   Forward a scam or spam text to 7726 (SPAM on the keypad). It's free, and your carrier uses it to block the sender. Don't tap links or reply.

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Allocated prefixes

All 10 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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