Phone prefixes in Long Pond, NL

In numbers

In-service prefixes

9

Telephone numbers covered

90,000

Carriers

6

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

February 22, 2001

Most recent assignment

June 28, 2022

Long Pond’s share of its area code

Within area code 709, Long Pond accounts for only 9 of 630 prefixes (1.4%): 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 4 prefixes, 44.4% of the total, ahead of 5 other carriers. Code by code: in 709, Aliant Telecom (NF) leads with 4 of 9 prefixes ahead of 5 others.

Wireless and wireline

1 of Long Pond’s 9 prefixes (11.1%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless). Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Aliant Telecom (NF), Bragg Communications Inc, Distributel and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Cable). 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

Long Pond’s dated assignments run from 2001 to 2022. The busiest period was 2000–2004, when 2 prefixes went to 2 carriers. 3 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 1 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Long Pond’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 Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) in 2001. The most recent arrivals are Distributel (2022), TELUS Integrated Communications (2016) and Bragg Communications Inc. (2011), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Long Pond.

Long Pond has just 9 prefixes (90,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

Aliant Telecom (NF) leads with 44.4% of the prefixes, but 5 competitors have set up in Long Pond: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Allocation is mature: only 16.7% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2000–2004, and 3 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Long Pond numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

3 undated in the register.

Dialling a Long Pond number

A single area code, 709, covers Long Pond, 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

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

What a Long Pond number tells you

A number attached to Long Pond 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 6 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 Long Pond: code 709-480 is recorded for Aliant Telecom (NF), so every 709-480-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Long Pond, Newfoundland and Labrador” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Long Pond prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 9 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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