Phone prefixes in Notre Dame de Lourdes

In numbers

In-service prefixes

8

Telephone numbers covered

80,000

Carriers

8

Area codes

4

Provinces and territories

2

First assignment

June 26, 2008

Most recent assignment

December 8, 2023

Provinces and territories

This name is used for separate rate centres in 2 provinces. The prefixes below share a name in the CNAC register but belong to different communities.

• Manitoba — 6 prefixes
• Quebec — 2 prefixes

Notre Dame de Lourdes’s share of its area codes

Within area code 431, Notre Dame de Lourdes accounts for only 4 of 572 prefixes (0.7%): the code is dominated by Winnipeg and spread over 146 rate centres. Within area code 819, Notre Dame de Lourdes accounts for only 2 of 770 prefixes (0.3%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 211 rate centres. Within area code 204, Notre Dame de Lourdes accounts for only 1 of 781 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Winnipeg and spread over 245 rate centres. Within area code 584, Notre Dame de Lourdes accounts for only 1 of 15 prefixes (6.7%): the code is dominated by Winnipeg and spread over 13 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 12.5% of the total, ahead of 7 other carriers. Code by code: in 431, Distributel leads with 1 of 4 prefixes ahead of 3 others; in 819, Bell Canada leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others; MTS Inc. is the only holder in 204; IXICA Communications Inc. is the only holder in 584. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Notre Dame de Lourdes’s 4 area codes, while 8 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

1 of Notre Dame de Lourdes’s 8 prefixes (12.5%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: TELUS Mobility. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Bell Canada, Distributel, Fibernetics Corporation and IVIC Telecom s.e.n.c. 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

Notre Dame de Lourdes’s dated assignments run from 2008 to 2023. The busiest period was 2020–2024, when 3 prefixes went to 3 carriers. 2 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 3 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Notre Dame de Lourdes’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Bell Canada and MTS Inc: these carriers made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to IVIC Telecom s.e.n.c in 2008. The most recent arrivals are IXICA Communications Inc. (2023), Fibernetics Corporation (2022) and Westman Media Cooperative Ltd (2020), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Notre Dame de Lourdes.

Notre Dame de Lourdes has just 8 prefixes (80,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

No single carrier dominates Notre Dame de Lourdes: the leader, Bell Canada, holds only 12.5% of the prefixes against 7 competitors, a sign of a highly fragmented market where cable companies, mobility brands and VoIP providers weigh as much as the incumbent.

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

2 undated in the register.

Dialling a Notre Dame de Lourdes number

Notre Dame de Lourdes is served by 4 overlaid area codes (431, 819, 204 and 584). A 584 number is no more “out of town” than a 431 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Notre Dame de Lourdes shares area codes 431, 819, 204 and 584 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Winnipeg, Ottawa-Hull, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivieres, Brandon, Portage La Prairie, Drummondville and Steinbach. The largest of them, Winnipeg, holds 390 prefixes in 204, 431 and 584; the smallest on the list, Virden, has just 13.

What a Notre Dame de Lourdes number tells you

A number attached to Notre Dame de Lourdes tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Manitoba, most often Bell Canada. It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 8 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 Manitoba area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Notre Dame de Lourdes: code 819-385 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 819-385-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Notre Dame de Lourdes, Manitoba” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Notre Dame de Lourdes prefix

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

Had a call from a Notre Dame de Lourdes number?

No clear pattern in reports on these numbers yet. If a call worried you:

1. Call back on a number you trust

   If a caller says they are your bank, the Canada Revenue Agency, a courier or your phone company, hang up and call the organization on the number from its website or your statement, never the number that called you. Caller ID can be faked.

2. Report the fraud

   Report the call or text to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre online or at 1-888-495-8501. If you lost money or gave out personal details, tell your bank first, then your local police.

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3. Register on the National Do Not Call List

   Registering a landline or mobile on the National DNCL is free. Registered charities, political parties, newspapers and companies you already do business with may still call.

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4. Forward suspicious texts to 7726

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Allocated prefixes

All 8 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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