Phone prefixes in Perrault Falls, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

September 1, 2022

Most recent assignment

September 1, 2022

Perrault Falls’s share of its area code

Within area code 807, Perrault Falls accounts for only 2 of 293 prefixes (0.7%): the code is dominated by Thunder Bay and spread over 85 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 807, Bell Canada leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others.

Wireless and wireline

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

How the allocation was built up

Perrault Falls’s dated assignments run from 2022 to 2022. The busiest period was 2020–2024, 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. Since 2020 another 1 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Perrault Falls’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 Distributel in 2022. The most recent arrivals are Distributel (2022), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Perrault Falls.

Perrault Falls 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 Perrault Falls: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Growth is recent: 100.0% of the dated prefixes were assigned in the last ten years, peaking in 2020–2024. Perrault Falls is among the rate centres where demand for numbers is still rising quickly.

Dialling a Perrault Falls number

A single area code, 807, covers Perrault Falls, 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

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

What a Perrault Falls number tells you

A number attached to Perrault Falls 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 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 an Ontario area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Perrault Falls: code 807-529 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 807-529-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Perrault Falls, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Perrault Falls prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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