Phone prefixes in Mallorytown, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

4

Telephone numbers covered

40,000

Carriers

3

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

August 30, 2007

Most recent assignment

August 26, 2024

Mallorytown’s share of its area codes

Within area code 613, Mallorytown accounts for only 3 of 772 prefixes (0.4%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 132 rate centres. Within area code 753, Mallorytown accounts for only 1 of 103 prefixes (1.0%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 62 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Fibernetics Corporation holds the largest share at 2 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 2 other carriers. Code by code: in 613, Fibernetics Corporation leads with 1 of 3 prefixes ahead of 2 others; Fibernetics Corporation is the only holder in 753. 1 carrier holds prefixes in every one of Mallorytown’s 2 area codes, while 2 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

None of Mallorytown’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 4 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Fibernetics Corporation, Bell Canada and Videotron Ltd. A call showing a Mallorytown number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

Mallorytown’s dated assignments run from 2007 to 2024. The busiest period was 2005–2009, when 1 prefixes went to 1 carrier. 1 prefixes (25%) 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.

Mallorytown’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Bell Canada: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Fibernetics Corporation in 2007. The most recent arrivals are Videotron Ltd. (2018) and Fibernetics Corporation (2007), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Mallorytown.

Mallorytown has just 4 prefixes (40,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

Fibernetics Corporation leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 2 competitors have set up in Mallorytown: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Demand remains steady: 33.3% of the dated prefixes go back to the last ten years, the most active period being 2005–2009. The rate centre is growing at a regular rather than explosive pace.

1 undated in the register.

Dialling a Mallorytown number

Mallorytown is served by 2 overlaid area codes (613 and 753). A 753 number is no more “out of town” than a 613 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Mallorytown shares area codes 613 and 753 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Ottawa-Hull, Kingston, Belleville, Kanata-Stittsville, Cornwall, Brockville, Pembroke and Smiths Falls. The largest of them, Ottawa-Hull, holds 337 prefixes in 613 and 753; the smallest on the list, Gloucester, has just 5.

What a Mallorytown number tells you

A number attached to Mallorytown tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Ontario, most often Fibernetics Corporation. 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 Mallorytown: code 613-973 is recorded for Fibernetics Corporation, so every 613-973-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Mallorytown, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Mallorytown prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 4 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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