Phone prefixes in Rainy River, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

June 19, 2015

Most recent assignment

June 19, 2015

Rainy River’s share of its area code

Within area code 807, Rainy River 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 Rainy River’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 2 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Bell Canada and Comwave Networks. A call showing a Rainy River number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

Rainy River’s dated assignments run from 2015 to 2015. The busiest period was 2015–2019, 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 Rainy River is flat.

Rainy River’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 Comwave Networks in 2015. The most recent arrivals are Comwave Networks (2015), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Rainy River.

Rainy River 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 Rainy River: 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 2015–2019, and 1 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Rainy River numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

Dialling a Rainy River number

A single area code, 807, covers Rainy River, 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

Rainy River 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 Rainy River number tells you

A number attached to Rainy River 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 Rainy River: code 807-852 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 807-852-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Rainy River, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Rainy River prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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