Phone prefixes in Marystown, NL

In numbers

In-service prefixes

12

Telephone numbers covered

120,000

Carriers

7

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

June 24, 2005

Most recent assignment

August 19, 2024

Marystown’s share of its area code

Within area code 709, Marystown accounts for only 12 of 630 prefixes (1.9%): the code is dominated by St. John's and spread over 209 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Mobility Aliant holds the largest share at 3 prefixes, 25.0% of the total, ahead of 6 other carriers. Code by code: in 709, Bell Mobility Aliant leads with 3 of 12 prefixes ahead of 6 others.

Wireless and wireline

4 of Marystown’s 12 prefixes (33.3%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility Aliant and TELUS Mobility. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Iristel Inc, Aliant Telecom (NF), Bragg Communications Inc and Distributel. 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

Marystown’s dated assignments run from 2005 to 2024. 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 3 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Marystown’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Aliant Telecom (NF) and Bell Mobility Aliant: these carriers made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Aliant Telecom (NF) in 2005. The most recent arrivals are Distributel (2022), Iristel Inc. (2016) and TELUS Integrated Communications (2014), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Marystown.

Marystown 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 Marystown: the leader, Bell Mobility Aliant, holds only 25.0% of the prefixes against 6 competitors, a sign of a highly fragmented market where cable companies, mobility brands and VoIP providers weigh as much as the incumbent.

Demand remains steady: 30.0% of the dated prefixes go back to the last ten years, the most active period being 2010–2014. The rate centre is growing at a regular rather than explosive pace.

2 undated in the register.

Dialling a Marystown number

A single area code, 709, covers Marystown, 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

Marystown shares area code 709 with at least 20 other rate centres, including St. John's, Corner Brook, Clarenville, Carbonear, Gander, Bay Roberts, Labrador City - Wabush 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 Marystown number tells you

A number attached to Marystown tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Newfoundland and Labrador, most often Bell Mobility Aliant. It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 7 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 Marystown: code 709-277 is recorded for Bell Mobility Aliant, so every 709-277-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Marystown, Newfoundland and Labrador” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Marystown prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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