Phone prefixes in Moose Factory, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

1

Telephone numbers covered

10,000

Carriers

1

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

Moose Factory’s share of its area code

Within area code 705, Moose Factory 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

Ontera, a division of Bell Canada holds every prefix here. Code by code: Ontera, a division of Bell Canada is the only holder in 705.

Wireless and wireline

None of Moose Factory’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 1 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Ontera, a division of Bell Canada. A call showing a Moose Factory 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 Moose Factory’s assignments: all 1 prefixes predate CNAC’s record-keeping, the signature of an old, settled network where nothing has been added in decades.

Ontera, a division of Bell Canada is the only carrier ever recorded for Moose Factory: 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.

Moose Factory 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: Ontera, a division of Bell Canada holds every prefix, and no competitor has ever requested a code for Moose Factory.

Dialling a Moose Factory number

A single area code, 705, covers Moose Factory, 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

Moose Factory 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 Moose Factory number tells you

A number attached to Moose Factory tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Ontario, most often Ontera, a division of Bell Canada. 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 an Ontario area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Moose Factory: code 705-658 is recorded for Ontera, a division of Bell Canada, so every 705-658-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Moose Factory, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Moose Factory prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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