Phone prefixes in Notre-Dame-du-Lac, QC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

January 28, 2008

Most recent assignment

January 28, 2008

Notre-Dame-du-Lac’s share of its area code

Within area code 418, Notre-Dame-du-Lac accounts for only 2 of 777 prefixes (0.3%): the code is dominated by Quebec and spread over 258 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 1 other carrier. Code by code: in 418, Bell Canada leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others.

Wireless and wireline

None of Notre-Dame-du-Lac’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 2 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Bell Canada and Videotron Ltd. A call showing a Notre-Dame-du-Lac number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

Notre-Dame-du-Lac’s dated assignments run from 2008 to 2008. The busiest period was 2005–2009, when 1 prefixes went to 1 carrier. 1 prefixes (50%) 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 Notre-Dame-du-Lac is flat.

Notre-Dame-du-Lac’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 Videotron Ltd. in 2008. The most recent arrivals are Videotron Ltd. (2008), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Notre-Dame-du-Lac.

Notre-Dame-du-Lac has just 2 prefixes (20,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

Bell Canada leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in Notre-Dame-du-Lac: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

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 Notre-Dame-du-Lac numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

Dialling a Notre-Dame-du-Lac number

A single area code, 418, covers Notre-Dame-du-Lac, 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 +1 418 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Notre-Dame-du-Lac shares area code 418 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Quebec, Chicoutimi, Rimouski, Alma, Riviere-du-Loup, Saint-Georges-de-Beauce, Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce and Thetford Mines. The largest of them, Quebec, holds 142 prefixes in 418; the smallest on the list, Saint-Tite, has just 6.

What a Notre-Dame-du-Lac number tells you

A number attached to Notre-Dame-du-Lac tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Quebec, 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 2 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 Quebec area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Notre-Dame-du-Lac: code 418-899 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 418-899-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Quebec” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Notre-Dame-du-Lac prefix

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

Had a call from a Notre-Dame-du-Lac 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.

   Report to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre ↗

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

   Forward a scam or spam text to 7726 (SPAM on the keypad). It's free, and your carrier uses it to block the sender. Don't tap links or reply.

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Allocated prefixes

All 2 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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