Phone prefixes in Roxboro, QC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

30

Telephone numbers covered

300,000

Carriers

13

Area codes

3

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

June 13, 2002

Most recent assignment

December 3, 2024

Roxboro’s share of its area codes

Within area code 514, Roxboro accounts for only 17 of 778 prefixes (2.2%): the code is dominated by Montreal and spread over 7 rate centres. Within area code 438, Roxboro accounts for only 11 of 604 prefixes (1.8%): the code is dominated by Montreal and spread over 6 rate centres. Within area code 263, Roxboro accounts for only 2 of 61 prefixes (3.3%): the code is dominated by Montreal and spread over 6 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds the largest share at 5 prefixes, 16.7% of the total, ahead of 12 other carriers. Code by code: in 514, Bell Canada leads with 5 of 17 prefixes ahead of 8 others; in 438, IXICA Communications Inc. leads with 2 of 11 prefixes ahead of 7 others; IXICA Communications Inc. is the only holder in 263. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Roxboro’s 3 area codes, while 8 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

1 of Roxboro’s 30 prefixes (3.3%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Fido Solutions Inc. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Bell Canada, IXICA Communications Inc, Fibernetics Corporation and Iristel Inc. 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

Roxboro’s dated assignments run from 2002 to 2024. The busiest period was 2005–2009, when 8 prefixes went to 6 carriers. 5 prefixes (17%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 6 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Roxboro’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 Videotron Ltd. in 2002. The most recent arrivals are FGLTEL Inc. (2022), IXICA Communications Inc. (2017) and TekSavvy Solutions Inc (2015), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Roxboro.

Roxboro’s 30 prefixes provide 300,000 numbers, which corresponds to a mid-sized city or a well-established suburb that every major carrier wants a slice of.

No single carrier dominates Roxboro: the leader, Bell Canada, holds only 16.7% of the prefixes against 12 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: 24.0% of the dated prefixes go back to the last ten years, the most active period being 2005–2009. The rate centre is growing at a regular rather than explosive pace.

5 undated in the register.

Dialling a Roxboro number

Roxboro is served by 3 overlaid area codes (514, 438 and 263). A 263 number is no more “out of town” than a 514 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Roxboro shares area codes 514, 438 and 263 with 6 other rate centres, including Montreal, Pointe-Claire, Lachine, Ste-Genevieve, Ile-Perrot and -. The largest of them, Montreal, holds 1,272 prefixes in 263, 438 and 514; the smallest on the list, -, has just 1.

What a Roxboro number tells you

A number attached to Roxboro tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Quebec, 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 13 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 Quebec area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Roxboro: code 514-421 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 514-421-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Roxboro, Quebec” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Roxboro prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 30 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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