Phone prefixes in Mindemoya, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

July 3, 2014

Most recent assignment

July 3, 2014

Mindemoya’s share of its area codes

Within area code 249, Mindemoya accounts for only 1 of 585 prefixes (0.2%): the code is dominated by Sudbury and spread over 176 rate centres. Within area code 705, Mindemoya accounts for only 1 of 770 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Barrie and spread over 203 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Persona Communications Inc. holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 1 other carrier. Code by code: TELUS Mobility is the only holder in 249; Persona Communications Inc. is the only holder in 705. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Mindemoya’s 2 area codes, while 2 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

1 of Mindemoya’s 2 prefixes (50.0%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: TELUS Mobility. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Persona Communications Inc. 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

Mindemoya’s dated assignments run from 2014 to 2014. The busiest period was 2010–2014, 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. No prefix has been added since 2020: demand for numbers in Mindemoya is flat.

Mindemoya’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Persona Communications Inc: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to TELUS Mobility in 2014. The most recent arrivals are TELUS Mobility (2014), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Mindemoya.

Mindemoya 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.

Persona Communications Inc. leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in Mindemoya: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Allocation is mature: only 0.0% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2010–2014, and 1 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Mindemoya numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

Dialling a Mindemoya number

Mindemoya 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

Mindemoya 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 Mindemoya number tells you

A number attached to Mindemoya tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Ontario, most often Persona Communications Inc.. 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 Mindemoya: code 705-377 is recorded for Persona Communications Inc., so every 705-377-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Mindemoya, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Mindemoya prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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