Phone prefixes in Nipigon, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

11

Telephone numbers covered

110,000

Carriers

6

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

April 20, 2004

Most recent assignment

December 14, 2023

Nipigon’s share of its area code

Within area code 807, Nipigon accounts for only 11 of 293 prefixes (3.8%): the code is dominated by Thunder Bay and spread over 85 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Mobility holds the largest share at 5 prefixes, 45.5% of the total, ahead of 5 other carriers. Code by code: in 807, Bell Mobility leads with 5 of 11 prefixes ahead of 5 others.

Wireless and wireline

7 of Nipigon’s 11 prefixes (63.6%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless). That makes this a mostly mobile rate centre, which is typical of recent allocations: new prefixes go overwhelmingly to cellphones. 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

Nipigon’s dated assignments run from 2004 to 2023. The busiest period was 2020–2024, when 5 prefixes went to 2 carriers. 1 prefixes (9%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 5 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Nipigon’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Bell Canada: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) in 2004. The most recent arrivals are Distributel (2022), Shaw Telecom Inc. (2019) and Bell Mobility (2014), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Nipigon.

Nipigon has only 11 prefixes, or 110,000 numbers: a small rate centre, where the arrival of a single new carrier visibly changes the landscape.

Bell Mobility leads with 45.5% of the prefixes, but 5 competitors have set up in Nipigon: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Growth is recent: 50.0% of the dated prefixes were assigned in the last ten years, peaking in 2020–2024. Nipigon is among the rate centres where demand for numbers is still rising quickly.

1 undated in the register.

Dialling a Nipigon number

A single area code, 807, covers Nipigon, 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 +1 807 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Nipigon shares area code 807 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Thunder Bay, Kenora, Fort Frances, Dryden, Marathon, Atikokan, Geraldton and Sioux Lookout. The largest of them, Thunder Bay, holds 67 prefixes in 807; the smallest on the list, Jaffray-Melick, has just 2.

What a Nipigon number tells you

A number attached to Nipigon tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Ontario, most often Bell Mobility. It does not tell you where the handset is today: most of Nipigon’s prefixes are mobile, and a cellphone keeps its number when its owner moves across the country. 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 Nipigon: code 807-372 is recorded for Bell Mobility, so every 807-372-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Nipigon, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Nipigon prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 11 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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