Phone prefixes in Musquodoboit Harbour, NS

In numbers

In-service prefixes

12

Telephone numbers covered

120,000

Carriers

9

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

March 7, 2002

Most recent assignment

January 12, 2023

Musquodoboit Harbour’s share of its area codes

Within area code 782, Musquodoboit Harbour accounts for only 6 of 460 prefixes (1.3%): the code is dominated by Halifax and spread over 142 rate centres. Within area code 902, Musquodoboit Harbour accounts for only 6 of 782 prefixes (0.8%): the code is dominated by Halifax and spread over 175 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bragg Communications Inc. holds the largest share at 2 prefixes, 16.7% of the total, ahead of 8 other carriers. Code by code: in 782, Fibernetics Corporation leads with 2 of 6 prefixes ahead of 3 others; in 902, Bragg Communications Inc. leads with 2 of 6 prefixes ahead of 4 others. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Musquodoboit Harbour’s 2 area codes, while 9 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

3 of Musquodoboit Harbour’s 12 prefixes (25.0%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility Aliant, Fido Solutions Inc and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless). Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Bragg Communications Inc, Fibernetics Corporation, Iristel Inc and Aliant Telecom (NS). 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

Musquodoboit Harbour’s dated assignments run from 2002 to 2023. The busiest period was 2020–2024, when 4 prefixes went to 3 carriers. 3 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 4 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Musquodoboit Harbour’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Aliant Telecom (NS), Bell Mobility Aliant and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless): these carriers made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Bragg Communications Inc. in 2002. The most recent arrivals are ISP Telecom Inc. (2021), Fibernetics Corporation (2021) and Distributel (2018), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Musquodoboit Harbour.

Musquodoboit Harbour has only 12 prefixes, or 120,000 numbers: a small rate centre, where the arrival of a single new carrier visibly changes the landscape.

No single carrier dominates Musquodoboit Harbour: the leader, Bragg Communications Inc., holds only 16.7% of the prefixes against 8 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: 44.4% of the dated prefixes go back to the last ten years, the most active period being 2020–2024. The rate centre is growing at a regular rather than explosive pace.

3 undated in the register.

Dialling a Musquodoboit Harbour number

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

The numbering neighbourhood

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

What a Musquodoboit Harbour number tells you

A number attached to Musquodoboit Harbour tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Nova Scotia, 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 9 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 Musquodoboit Harbour: code 902-337 is recorded for Bragg Communications Inc., so every 902-337-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Musquodoboit Harbour prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 12 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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