Phone prefixes in Monastery, NS

In numbers

In-service prefixes

3

Telephone numbers covered

30,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

April 21, 2016

Most recent assignment

April 21, 2016

Monastery’s share of its area codes

Within area code 902, Monastery accounts for only 2 of 782 prefixes (0.3%): the code is dominated by Halifax and spread over 175 rate centres. Within area code 782, Monastery accounts for only 1 of 456 prefixes (0.2%): the code is dominated by Halifax and spread over 142 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Aliant Telecom (NS) holds the largest share at 2 prefixes, 66.7% of the total, ahead of 1 other carrier. Code by code: Aliant Telecom (NS) is the only holder in 902; Bragg Communications Inc. is the only holder in 782. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Monastery’s 2 area codes, while 2 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

None of Monastery’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 3 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Aliant Telecom (NS) and Bragg Communications Inc. A call showing a Monastery number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

Monastery’s dated assignments run from 2016 to 2016. The busiest period was 2015–2019, when 1 prefixes went to 1 carrier. 2 prefixes (67%) 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 Monastery is flat.

Monastery’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Aliant Telecom (NS): this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Bragg Communications Inc. in 2016. The most recent arrivals are Bragg Communications Inc. (2016), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Monastery.

Monastery has just 3 prefixes (30,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

Aliant Telecom (NS) leads with 66.7% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in Monastery: 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 2015–2019, and 2 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Monastery numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

Dialling a Monastery number

Monastery is served by 2 overlaid area codes (902 and 782). A 782 number is no more “out of town” than a 902 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Monastery shares area codes 902 and 782 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Halifax, Charlottetown, Sydney, Truro, Amherst, New Glasgow, Kentville and Summerside. The largest of them, Halifax, holds 220 prefixes in 782 and 902; the smallest on the list, Musquodoboit Harbour, has just 12.

What a Monastery number tells you

A number attached to Monastery tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Nova Scotia, most often Aliant Telecom (NS). 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 a Nova Scotia area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Monastery: code 902-232 is recorded for Aliant Telecom (NS), so every 902-232-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Monastery, Nova Scotia” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Monastery prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 3 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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