Phone prefixes in Moonbeam, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

March 15, 2012

Most recent assignment

March 15, 2012

Moonbeam’s share of its area code

Within area code 705, Moonbeam accounts for only 2 of 770 prefixes (0.3%): the code is dominated by Barrie and spread over 203 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bragg Communications Inc. holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 1 other carrier. Code by code: in 705, Bragg Communications Inc. leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others.

Wireless and wireline

None of Moonbeam’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 2 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Bragg Communications Inc and Northern Telephone Ltd. A call showing a Moonbeam number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

Moonbeam’s dated assignments run from 2012 to 2012. 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 Moonbeam is flat.

Moonbeam’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Northern Telephone Ltd: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Bragg Communications Inc. in 2012. The most recent arrivals are Bragg Communications Inc. (2012), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Moonbeam.

Moonbeam 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.

Bragg Communications Inc. leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in Moonbeam: 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 Moonbeam numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

Dialling a Moonbeam number

A single area code, 705, covers Moonbeam, 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 +1 705 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Moonbeam shares area code 705 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Barrie, Sudbury, Peterborough, Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay, Lindsay, Timmins and Orillia. The largest of them, Barrie, holds 71 prefixes in 705; the smallest on the list, Blezard Valley, has just 6.

What a Moonbeam number tells you

A number attached to Moonbeam tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Ontario, most often Bragg 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 Moonbeam: code 705-381 is recorded for Bragg Communications Inc., so every 705-381-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Moonbeam, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Moonbeam prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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