Phone prefixes in Old Crow, YT

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

August 20, 2014

Most recent assignment

August 20, 2014

Old Crow’s share of its area code

Within area code 867, Old Crow accounts for only 2 of 258 prefixes (0.8%): the code is dominated by Yellowknife and spread over 75 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Mobility holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 1 other carrier. Code by code: in 867, Bell Mobility leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others.

Wireless and wireline

1 of Old Crow’s 2 prefixes (50.0%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Northwestel. 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

Old Crow’s dated assignments run from 2014 to 2014. The busiest period was 2010–2014, 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 Old Crow is flat.

Old Crow’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Northwestel: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Bell Mobility in 2014. The most recent arrivals are Bell Mobility (2014), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Old Crow.

Old Crow 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 Mobility leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in Old Crow: 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 2010–2014, and 1 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Old Crow numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

Dialling a Old Crow number

A single area code, 867, covers Old Crow, 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 +1 867 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Old Crow shares area code 867 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Yellowknife, Whitehorse, Iqaluit, Inuvik, Behchoko, Tuktoyaktuk, Arviat and Dawson City. The largest of them, Yellowknife, holds 35 prefixes in 867; the smallest on the list, Igloolik, has just 3.

What a Old Crow number tells you

A number attached to Old Crow tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Yukon, most often Bell Mobility. 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 Yukon area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Old Crow: code 867-325 is recorded for Bell Mobility, so every 867-325-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Old Crow, Yukon” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Old Crow prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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