Phone prefixes in Schreiber, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

3

Telephone numbers covered

30,000

Carriers

3

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

June 24, 2014

Most recent assignment

November 15, 2019

Schreiber’s share of its area code

Within area code 807, Schreiber accounts for only 3 of 293 prefixes (1.0%): 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, 33.3% of the total, ahead of 2 other carriers. Code by code: in 807, Bell Canada leads with 1 of 3 prefixes ahead of 2 others.

Wireless and wireline

1 of Schreiber’s 3 prefixes (33.3%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Bell Canada and Shaw Telecom 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

Schreiber’s dated assignments run from 2014 to 2019. The busiest period was 2010–2014, when 1 prefixes went to 1 carrier. 1 prefixes (33%) 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 Schreiber is flat.

Schreiber’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 Bell Mobility in 2014. The most recent arrivals are Shaw Telecom Inc. (2019) and Bell Mobility (2014), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Schreiber.

Schreiber has just 3 prefixes (30,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

No single carrier dominates Schreiber: the leader, Bell Canada, holds only 33.3% of the prefixes against 2 competitors, a sign of a highly fragmented market where cable companies, mobility brands and VoIP providers weigh as much as the incumbent.

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 Schreiber numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

1 undated in the register.

Dialling a Schreiber number

A single area code, 807, covers Schreiber, 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

Schreiber 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, Jaffray-Melick, has just 2.

What a Schreiber number tells you

A number attached to Schreiber 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 3 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 Schreiber: code 807-824 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 807-824-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Schreiber, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Schreiber prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 3 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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