Phone prefixes in McDonalds Corners, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

August 8, 2022

Most recent assignment

August 8, 2022

McDonalds Corners’s share of its area codes

Within area code 613, McDonalds Corners accounts for only 1 of 772 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 132 rate centres. Within area code 753, McDonalds Corners 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

Bell Canada holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 1 other carrier. Code by code: Bell Canada is the only holder in 613; Fibernetics Corporation is the only holder in 753. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of McDonalds Corners’s 2 area codes, while 2 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

None of McDonalds Corners’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 2 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Bell Canada and Fibernetics Corporation. A call showing a McDonalds Corners number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

McDonalds Corners’s dated assignments run from 2022 to 2022. The busiest period was 2020–2024, when 1 prefixes went to 1 carrier. 1 prefixes (50%) 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.

McDonalds Corners’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 2022. The most recent arrivals are Fibernetics Corporation (2022), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in McDonalds Corners.

McDonalds Corners has just 2 prefixes (20,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

Bell Canada leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in McDonalds Corners: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Growth is recent: 100.0% of the dated prefixes were assigned in the last ten years, peaking in 2020–2024. McDonalds Corners is among the rate centres where demand for numbers is still rising quickly.

Dialling a McDonalds Corners number

McDonalds Corners 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

McDonalds Corners 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 McDonalds Corners number tells you

A number attached to McDonalds Corners tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Ontario, most often Bell Canada. It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 2 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 McDonalds Corners: code 613-278 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 613-278-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “McDonalds Corners, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every McDonalds Corners prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 2 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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