Phone prefixes in St-Andre-Avellin, QC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

9

Telephone numbers covered

90,000

Carriers

5

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

February 3, 2005

Most recent assignment

October 21, 2024

St-Andre-Avellin’s share of its area codes

Within area code 819, St-Andre-Avellin accounts for only 5 of 770 prefixes (0.6%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 211 rate centres. Within area code 873, St-Andre-Avellin accounts for only 4 of 667 prefixes (0.6%): the code is dominated by Sherbrooke and spread over 162 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Videotron Ltd. holds the largest share at 4 prefixes, 44.4% of the total, ahead of 4 other carriers. Code by code: in 819, Videotron Ltd. leads with 2 of 5 prefixes ahead of 2 others; in 873, Videotron Ltd. leads with 2 of 4 prefixes ahead of 2 others. 1 carrier holds prefixes in every one of St-Andre-Avellin’s 2 area codes, while 4 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

1 of St-Andre-Avellin’s 9 prefixes (11.1%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Videotron Ltd, Telebec Ltee, Bell Canada and TELUS Quebec. 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

St-Andre-Avellin’s dated assignments run from 2005 to 2024. The busiest period was 2005–2009, when 4 prefixes went to 3 carriers. 1 prefixes (11%) 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.

St-Andre-Avellin’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Telebec Ltee: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Videotron Ltd. in 2005. The most recent arrivals are Bell Canada (2024), TELUS Quebec (2017) and Telebec Ltee. (2006), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in St-Andre-Avellin.

St-Andre-Avellin has just 9 prefixes (90,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

Videotron Ltd. leads with 44.4% of the prefixes, but 4 competitors have set up in St-Andre-Avellin: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Allocation is mature: only 12.5% 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 St-Andre-Avellin numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

1 undated in the register.

Dialling a St-Andre-Avellin number

St-Andre-Avellin is served by 2 overlaid area codes (819 and 873). A 873 number is no more “out of town” than a 819 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

St-Andre-Avellin shares area codes 819 and 873 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Ottawa-Hull, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivieres, Drummondville, Gatineau, Victoriaville, Val-D'Or and Maniwaki. The largest of them, Ottawa-Hull, holds 119 prefixes in 819 and 873; the smallest on the list, Ville-Marie, has just 12.

What a St-Andre-Avellin number tells you

A number attached to St-Andre-Avellin tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Quebec, most often Videotron Ltd.. It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 5 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 St-Andre-Avellin: code 819-516 is recorded for Videotron Ltd., so every 819-516-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “St-Andre-Avellin, Quebec” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every St-Andre-Avellin prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 9 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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