Phone prefixes in Roxton Falls, QC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

December 24, 2012

Most recent assignment

December 24, 2012

Roxton Falls’s share of its area codes

Within area code 450, Roxton Falls accounts for only 1 of 775 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Granby and spread over 129 rate centres. Within area code 579, Roxton Falls accounts for only 1 of 644 prefixes (0.2%): the code is dominated by Granby and spread over 126 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

CoopTel de telecommunication holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 1 other carrier. Code by code: CoopTel de telecommunication is the only holder in 450; TELUS Quebec is the only holder in 579. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Roxton Falls’s 2 area codes, while 2 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

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

How the allocation was built up

Roxton Falls’s dated assignments run from 2012 to 2012. The busiest period was 2010–2014, 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 Roxton Falls is flat.

Roxton Falls’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to CoopTel de telecommunication: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to TELUS Quebec in 2012. The most recent arrivals are TELUS Quebec (2012), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Roxton Falls.

Roxton 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.

CoopTel de telecommunication leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in Roxton Falls: 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 2010–2014, and 1 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Roxton Falls numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

Dialling a Roxton Falls number

Roxton Falls is served by 2 overlaid area codes (450 and 579). A 579 number is no more “out of town” than a 450 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Roxton Falls shares area codes 450 and 579 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Granby, Joliette, St-Jerome, St-Hyacinthe, Longueuil, Ste-Therese, Pont-Viau and Sorel. The largest of them, Granby, holds 51 prefixes in 450 and 579; the smallest on the list, Lachute, has just 17.

What a Roxton Falls number tells you

A number attached to Roxton Falls tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Quebec, most often CoopTel de telecommunication. 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 a Quebec area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Roxton Falls: code 450-548 is recorded for CoopTel de telecommunication, so every 450-548-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Roxton Falls, Quebec” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Roxton Falls prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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