Phone prefixes in Smooth Rock Falls, ON

In numbers

In-service prefixes

3

Telephone numbers covered

30,000

Carriers

3

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

July 31, 2006

Most recent assignment

October 6, 2022

Smooth Rock Falls’s share of its area codes

Within area code 705, Smooth Rock Falls accounts for only 2 of 770 prefixes (0.3%): the code is dominated by Barrie and spread over 203 rate centres. Within area code 249, Smooth Rock Falls accounts for only 1 of 586 prefixes (0.2%): the code is dominated by Sudbury and spread over 176 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Mobility holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 33.3% of the total, ahead of 2 other carriers. Code by code: in 705, Bell Mobility leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others; ExaTEL Inc. is the only holder in 249. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Smooth Rock Falls’s 2 area codes, while 3 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

1 of Smooth Rock Falls’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 ExaTEL Inc and Northern Telephone Ltd. 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

Smooth Rock Falls’s dated assignments run from 2006 to 2022. The busiest period was 2005–2009, 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. Since 2020 another 1 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Smooth Rock Falls’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Northern Telephone Ltd: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Bell Mobility in 2006. The most recent arrivals are ExaTEL Inc. (2022) and Bell Mobility (2006), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Smooth Rock Falls.

Smooth Rock Falls 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 Smooth Rock Falls: the leader, Bell Mobility, 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.

Growth is recent: 50.0% of the dated prefixes were assigned in the last ten years, peaking in 2005–2009. Smooth Rock Falls is among the rate centres where demand for numbers is still rising quickly.

1 undated in the register.

Dialling a Smooth Rock Falls number

Smooth Rock Falls is served by 2 overlaid area codes (705 and 249). A 249 number is no more “out of town” than a 705 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Smooth Rock Falls shares area codes 705 and 249 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Barrie, Sudbury, Peterborough, Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay, Huntsville, Collingwood and Lindsay. The largest of them, Barrie, holds 92 prefixes in 249 and 705; the smallest on the list, Kirkland Lake, has just 12.

What a Smooth Rock Falls number tells you

A number attached to Smooth Rock Falls tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Ontario, most often Bell Mobility. 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 Smooth Rock Falls: code 705-314 is recorded for Bell Mobility, so every 705-314-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Smooth Rock Falls prefix

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

Had a call from a Smooth Rock Falls number?

No clear pattern in reports on these numbers yet. If a call worried you:

1. Call back on a number you trust

   If a caller says they are your bank, the Canada Revenue Agency, a courier or your phone company, hang up and call the organization on the number from its website or your statement, never the number that called you. Caller ID can be faked.

2. Report the fraud

   Report the call or text to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre online or at 1-888-495-8501. If you lost money or gave out personal details, tell your bank first, then your local police.

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3. Register on the National Do Not Call List

   Registering a landline or mobile on the National DNCL is free. Registered charities, political parties, newspapers and companies you already do business with may still call.

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4. Forward suspicious texts to 7726

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Allocated prefixes

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

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