Phone prefixes in Omemee, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

9

Telephone numbers covered

90,000

Carriers

9

Area codes

3

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

June 12, 2009

Most recent assignment

January 9, 2026

Omemee’s share of its area codes

Within area code 249, Omemee accounts for only 4 of 585 prefixes (0.7%): the code is dominated by Sudbury and spread over 176 rate centres. Within area code 705, Omemee accounts for only 4 of 770 prefixes (0.5%): the code is dominated by Barrie and spread over 203 rate centres. Within area code 683, Omemee accounts for only 1 of 80 prefixes (1.3%): the code is dominated by Lindsay and spread over 57 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 11.1% of the total, ahead of 8 other carriers. Code by code: in 249, Fibernetics Corporation leads with 1 of 4 prefixes ahead of 3 others; in 705, Bell Canada leads with 1 of 4 prefixes ahead of 3 others; Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Cable) is the only holder in 683. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Omemee’s 3 area codes, while 9 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

None of Omemee’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 9 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Bell Canada, Bragg Communications Inc, Comwave Networks and Fibernetics Corporation. A call showing a Omemee number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

Omemee’s dated assignments run from 2009 to 2026. The busiest period was 2010–2014, when 2 prefixes went to 2 carriers. 1 prefixes (11%) 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.

Omemee’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 Nexicom Telecommunications Inc in 2009. The most recent arrivals are Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Cable) (2026), ISP Telecom Inc. (2022) and Fibernetics Corporation (2020), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Omemee.

Omemee has just 9 prefixes (90,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

No single carrier dominates Omemee: the leader, Bell Canada, holds only 11.1% of the prefixes against 8 competitors, a sign of a highly fragmented market where cable companies, mobility brands and VoIP providers weigh as much as the incumbent.

Demand remains steady: 37.5% of the dated prefixes go back to the last ten years, the most active period being 2010–2014. The rate centre is growing at a regular rather than explosive pace.

1 undated in the register.

Dialling a Omemee number

Omemee is served by 3 overlaid area codes (249, 705 and 683). A 683 number is no more “out of town” than a 249 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Omemee shares area codes 249, 705 and 683 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Barrie, Sudbury, Peterborough, Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay, Huntsville, Lindsay and Collingwood. The largest of them, Barrie, holds 95 prefixes in 249, 683 and 705; the smallest on the list, Kapuskasing, has just 12.

What a Omemee number tells you

A number attached to Omemee tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Ontario, 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 9 carriers present here or to a VoIP service usable anywhere. 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 Omemee: code 705-799 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 705-799-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Omemee, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Omemee prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 9 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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