Phone prefixes in New Harbour, NL

In numbers

In-service prefixes

3

Telephone numbers covered

30,000

Carriers

3

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

January 16, 2009

Most recent assignment

June 6, 2019

New Harbour’s share of its area code

Within area code 709, New Harbour accounts for only 3 of 630 prefixes (0.5%): the code is dominated by St. John's and spread over 209 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Aliant Telecom (NF) holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 33.3% of the total, ahead of 2 other carriers. Code by code: in 709, Aliant Telecom (NF) leads with 1 of 3 prefixes ahead of 2 others.

Wireless and wireline

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

How the allocation was built up

New Harbour’s dated assignments run from 2009 to 2019. The busiest period was 2005–2009, when 1 prefixes went to 1 carrier. 1 prefixes (33%) 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 New Harbour is flat.

New Harbour’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Aliant Telecom (NF): this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Bragg Communications Inc. in 2009. The most recent arrivals are TELUS Integrated Communications (2019) and Bragg Communications Inc. (2009), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in New Harbour.

New Harbour 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.

No single carrier dominates New Harbour: the leader, Aliant Telecom (NF), holds only 33.3% of the prefixes against 2 competitors, a sign of a highly fragmented market where cable companies, mobility brands and VoIP providers weigh as much as the incumbent.

Allocation is mature: only 0.0% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2005–2009, and 1 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New New Harbour numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

1 undated in the register.

Dialling a New Harbour number

A single area code, 709, covers New Harbour, 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 +1 709 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

New Harbour shares area code 709 with at least 20 other rate centres, including St. John's, Corner Brook, Clarenville, Carbonear, Gander, Marystown, Bay Roberts and Labrador City - Wabush. The largest of them, St. John's, holds 100 prefixes in 709; the smallest on the list, Glovertown, has just 5.

What a New Harbour number tells you

A number attached to New Harbour tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Newfoundland and Labrador, most often Aliant Telecom (NF). It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 3 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 Newfoundland and Labrador area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for New Harbour: code 709-582 is recorded for Aliant Telecom (NF), so every 709-582-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “New Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every New Harbour prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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