Phone prefixes in Millville, NB

In numbers

In-service prefixes

1

Telephone numbers covered

10,000

Carriers

1

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

Millville’s share of its area code

Within area code 506, Millville accounts for only 1 of 677 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Moncton and spread over 88 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Aliant Telecom(NB) holds every prefix here. Code by code: Aliant Telecom(NB) is the only holder in 506.

Wireless and wireline

None of Millville’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 1 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Aliant Telecom(NB). A call showing a Millville number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

The register dates none of Millville’s assignments: all 1 prefixes predate CNAC’s record-keeping, the signature of an old, settled network where nothing has been added in decades.

Aliant Telecom(NB) is the only carrier ever recorded for Millville: no competitor has obtained a prefix here. A single-carrier rate centre is typical of small communities where only the incumbent ever built a network.

Millville has just 1 prefix (10,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

The local market is an allocation monopoly: Aliant Telecom(NB) holds every prefix, and no competitor has ever requested a code for Millville.

Dialling a Millville number

A single area code, 506, covers Millville, 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 +1 506 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Millville shares area code 506 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Moncton, Saint John, Fredericton, Miramichi, Bathurst, Edmundston, Campbellton and Tracadie. The largest of them, Moncton, holds 79 prefixes in 506; the smallest on the list, Petitcodiac, has just 9.

What a Millville number tells you

A number attached to Millville tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in New Brunswick, most often Aliant Telecom(NB). It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 1 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 New Brunswick area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Millville: code 506-463 is recorded for Aliant Telecom(NB), so every 506-463-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Millville, New Brunswick” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Millville prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 1 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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