Phone prefixes in Smiths Falls, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

25

Telephone numbers covered

250,000

Carriers

13

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

February 18, 2002

Most recent assignment

February 12, 2025

Smiths Falls’s share of its area codes

Within area code 613, Smiths Falls accounts for only 16 of 772 prefixes (2.1%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 132 rate centres. Within area code 343, Smiths Falls accounts for only 9 of 641 prefixes (1.4%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 116 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds the largest share at 4 prefixes, 16.0% of the total, ahead of 12 other carriers. Code by code: in 613, Globalstar leads with 4 of 16 prefixes ahead of 8 others; in 343, Iristel Inc. leads with 3 of 9 prefixes ahead of 5 others. 2 carriers hold prefixes in every one of Smiths Falls’s 2 area codes, while 11 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

6 of Smiths Falls’s 25 prefixes (24.0%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless), TELUS Mobility, Bell Mobility and Fido Solutions Inc. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Bell Canada, Globalstar, Iristel Inc and Fibernetics Corporation. 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

Smiths Falls’s dated assignments run from 2002 to 2025. The busiest period was 2005–2009, when 5 prefixes went to 4 carriers. 4 prefixes (16%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 5 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Smiths Falls’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Bell Canada and Globalstar: these carriers made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to TELUS Mobility in 2002. The most recent arrivals are Cogeco Connexion Inc. (2025), Videotron Ltd. (2024) and Westport Telephone Company Limited (2022), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Smiths Falls.

Smiths Falls has only 25 prefixes, or 250,000 numbers: a small rate centre, where the arrival of a single new carrier visibly changes the landscape.

No single carrier dominates Smiths Falls: the leader, Bell Canada, holds only 16.0% 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: 23.8% 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.

4 undated in the register.

Dialling a Smiths Falls number

Smiths Falls is served by 2 overlaid area codes (613 and 343). A 343 number is no more “out of town” than a 613 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Smiths Falls shares area codes 613 and 343 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Ottawa-Hull, Kingston, Belleville, Cornwall, Kanata-Stittsville, Brockville, Bancroft and Carleton Place. The largest of them, Ottawa-Hull, holds 425 prefixes in 343 and 613; the smallest on the list, Cumberland, has just 10.

What a Smiths Falls number tells you

A number attached to Smiths Falls 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 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 an Ontario area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Smiths Falls: code 613-283 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 613-283-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Smiths Falls, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Smiths Falls prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 25 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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