Phone prefixes in Saint-Quentin, NB

In numbers

In-service prefixes

5

Telephone numbers covered

50,000

Carriers

4

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

June 23, 2005

Most recent assignment

August 20, 2014

Saint-Quentin’s share of its area code

Within area code 506, Saint-Quentin accounts for only 5 of 677 prefixes (0.7%): the code is dominated by Moncton and spread over 88 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Aliant Telecom(NB) holds the largest share at 2 prefixes, 40.0% of the total, ahead of 3 other carriers. Code by code: in 506, Aliant Telecom(NB) leads with 2 of 5 prefixes ahead of 3 others.

Wireless and wireline

1 of Saint-Quentin’s 5 prefixes (20.0%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility Aliant. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Aliant Telecom(NB), Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Cable) and TELUS Integrated Communications. 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

Saint-Quentin’s dated assignments run from 2005 to 2014. The busiest period was 2005–2009, when 3 prefixes went to 3 carriers. 1 prefixes (20%) 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 Saint-Quentin is flat.

Saint-Quentin’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Aliant Telecom(NB): this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Aliant Telecom(NB) in 2005. The most recent arrivals are TELUS Integrated Communications (2014), Bell Mobility Aliant (2008) and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Cable) (2008), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Saint-Quentin.

Saint-Quentin has just 5 prefixes (50,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

Aliant Telecom(NB) leads with 40.0% of the prefixes, but 3 competitors have set up in Saint-Quentin: 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 2005–2009, and 1 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Saint-Quentin numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

1 undated in the register.

Dialling a Saint-Quentin number

A single area code, 506, covers Saint-Quentin, 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 +1 506 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Saint-Quentin shares area code 506 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Moncton, Saint John, Fredericton, Miramichi, Bathurst, Edmundston, Campbellton and Tracadie. The largest of them, Moncton, holds 79 prefixes in 506; the smallest on the list, Petitcodiac, has just 9.

What a Saint-Quentin number tells you

A number attached to Saint-Quentin tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in New Brunswick, most often Aliant Telecom(NB). It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 4 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 New Brunswick area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Saint-Quentin: code 506-234 is recorded for Aliant Telecom(NB), so every 506-234-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Saint-Quentin, New Brunswick” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Saint-Quentin prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 5 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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