Phone prefixes in Milot, QC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

4

Telephone numbers covered

40,000

Carriers

4

Area codes

3

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

January 16, 2007

Most recent assignment

November 11, 2025

Milot’s share of its area codes

Within area code 418, Milot accounts for only 2 of 777 prefixes (0.3%): the code is dominated by Quebec and spread over 258 rate centres. Within area code 367, Milot accounts for only 1 of 232 prefixes (0.4%): the code is dominated by Quebec and spread over 110 rate centres. Within area code 581, Milot accounts for only 1 of 778 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Quebec and spread over 232 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 25.0% of the total, ahead of 3 other carriers. Code by code: in 418, Bell Canada leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others; TELUS Quebec is the only holder in 367; Telecommunications Xittel Inc is the only holder in 581. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Milot’s 3 area codes, while 4 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

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

How the allocation was built up

Milot’s dated assignments run from 2007 to 2025. 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.

Milot’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 Videotron Ltd. in 2007. The most recent arrivals are TELUS Quebec (2025), Telecommunications Xittel Inc (2012) and Videotron Ltd. (2007), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Milot.

Milot 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.

No single carrier dominates Milot: the leader, Bell Canada, holds only 25.0% of the prefixes against 3 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: 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 Milot number

Milot is served by 3 overlaid area codes (418, 367 and 581). A 581 number is no more “out of town” than a 418 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Milot shares area codes 418, 367 and 581 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Quebec, Chicoutimi, Alma, Rimouski, Riviere-du-Loup, Thetford Mines, Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce and Levis. The largest of them, Quebec, holds 282 prefixes in 367, 418 and 581; the smallest on the list, Saint-Henri-de-Levis, has just 16.

What a Milot number tells you

A number attached to Milot tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Quebec, 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 4 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 Quebec area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Milot: code 418-373 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 418-373-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Milot, Quebec” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Milot prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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