Phone prefixes in Port Edward, BC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

10

Telephone numbers covered

100,000

Carriers

8

Area codes

4

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

October 25, 2007

Most recent assignment

June 25, 2024

Port Edward’s share of its area codes

Within area code 778, Port Edward accounts for only 4 of 779 prefixes (0.5%): the code is dominated by Vancouver and spread over 159 rate centres. Within area code 236, Port Edward accounts for only 2 of 745 prefixes (0.3%): the code is dominated by Vancouver and spread over 269 rate centres. Within area code 250, Port Edward accounts for only 2 of 781 prefixes (0.3%): the code is dominated by Victoria and spread over 268 rate centres. Within area code 672, Port Edward accounts for only 2 of 321 prefixes (0.6%): the code is dominated by Vancouver and spread over 109 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) holds the largest share at 2 prefixes, 20.0% of the total, ahead of 7 other carriers. Code by code: in 778, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) leads with 1 of 4 prefixes ahead of 3 others; in 236, Videotron Ltd. leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others; in 250, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others; in 672, Videotron Ltd. leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Port Edward’s 4 area codes, while 6 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

5 of Port Edward’s 10 prefixes (50.0%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless), Bell Mobility, Fido Solutions Inc and TELUS Mobility. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Videotron Ltd, CityWest Cable (North) Corp - BC, Navigata Communications Limited and TELUS. 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

Port Edward’s dated assignments run from 2007 to 2024. The busiest period was 2010–2014, when 3 prefixes went to 3 carriers. 1 prefixes (10%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 2 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Port Edward’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to TELUS: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) in 2007. The most recent arrivals are Fido Solutions Inc. (2022), Videotron Ltd. (2018) and Navigata Communications Limited (2016), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Port Edward.

Port Edward has only 10 prefixes, or 100,000 numbers: a small rate centre, where the arrival of a single new carrier visibly changes the landscape.

No single carrier dominates Port Edward: the leader, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless), holds only 20.0% 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.

Demand remains steady: 22.2% 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 Port Edward number

Port Edward is served by 4 overlaid area codes (778, 236, 250 and 672). A 672 number is no more “out of town” than a 778 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Port Edward shares area codes 778, 236, 250 and 672 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna, New Westminster, Abbotsford, Nanaimo, South Kamloops and Prince George. The largest of them, Vancouver, holds 397 prefixes in 236, 672 and 778; the smallest on the list, Campbell River, has just 22.

What a Port Edward number tells you

A number attached to Port Edward tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in British Columbia, most often Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless). 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 British Columbia area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Port Edward: code 778-973 is recorded for Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless), so every 778-973-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Port Edward, British Columbia” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Port Edward prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 10 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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