Phone prefixes in Mattawa, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

8

Telephone numbers covered

80,000

Carriers

5

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

February 22, 2006

Most recent assignment

April 26, 2022

Mattawa’s share of its area codes

Within area code 249, Mattawa accounts for only 4 of 585 prefixes (0.7%): the code is dominated by Sudbury and spread over 176 rate centres. Within area code 705, Mattawa accounts for only 4 of 770 prefixes (0.5%): the code is dominated by Barrie and spread over 203 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) holds the largest share at 4 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 4 other carriers. Code by code: in 249, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) leads with 1 of 4 prefixes ahead of 3 others; in 705, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) leads with 3 of 4 prefixes ahead of 1 others. 1 carrier holds prefixes in every one of Mattawa’s 2 area codes, while 4 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

5 of Mattawa’s 8 prefixes (62.5%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) and Fido Solutions Inc. That makes this a mostly mobile rate centre, which is typical of recent allocations: new prefixes go overwhelmingly to cellphones. 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

Mattawa’s dated assignments run from 2006 to 2022. The busiest period was 2005–2009, when 3 prefixes went to 1 carrier. 1 prefixes (13%) 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.

Mattawa’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 Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) in 2006. The most recent arrivals are Fibernetics Corporation (2022), TELUS Integrated Communications (2017) and Fido Solutions Inc. (2013), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Mattawa.

Mattawa has just 8 prefixes (80,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 4 competitors have set up in Mattawa: 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 1 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Mattawa numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

1 undated in the register.

Dialling a Mattawa number

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

The numbering neighbourhood

Mattawa shares area codes 249 and 705 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, Kirkland Lake, has just 12.

What a Mattawa number tells you

A number attached to Mattawa tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Ontario, most often Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless). It does not tell you where the handset is today: most of Mattawa’s prefixes are mobile, and a cellphone keeps its number when its owner moves across the country. 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 Mattawa: code 249-400 is recorded for Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless), so every 249-400-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Mattawa, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Mattawa prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 8 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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