Phone prefixes in St-Jovite, QC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

16

Telephone numbers covered

160,000

Carriers

8

Area codes

3

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

July 13, 2000

Most recent assignment

August 25, 2025

St-Jovite’s share of its area codes

Within area code 819, St-Jovite accounts for only 10 of 770 prefixes (1.3%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 211 rate centres. Within area code 873, St-Jovite accounts for only 5 of 667 prefixes (0.7%): the code is dominated by Sherbrooke and spread over 162 rate centres. Within area code 468, St-Jovite accounts for only 1 of 67 prefixes (1.5%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 57 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

TELUS Quebec holds the largest share at 4 prefixes, 25.0% of the total, ahead of 7 other carriers. Code by code: in 819, Bell Canada leads with 3 of 10 prefixes ahead of 5 others; in 873, TELUS Quebec leads with 2 of 5 prefixes ahead of 2 others; Cogeco Connexion Inc. is the only holder in 468. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of St-Jovite’s 3 area codes, while 6 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

4 of St-Jovite’s 16 prefixes (25.0%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: TELUS Mobility, Bell Mobility and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless). Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by TELUS Quebec, Bell Canada, ISP Telecom Inc and Videotron 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

St-Jovite’s dated assignments run from 2000 to 2025. The busiest period was 2005–2009, when 4 prefixes went to 4 carriers. 3 prefixes (19%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 2 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

St-Jovite’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 TELUS Mobility in 2000. The most recent arrivals are Cogeco Connexion Inc. (2025), ISP Telecom Inc. (2012) and Videotron Ltd. (2009), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in St-Jovite.

St-Jovite has only 16 prefixes, or 160,000 numbers: a small rate centre, where the arrival of a single new carrier visibly changes the landscape.

No single carrier dominates St-Jovite: the leader, TELUS Quebec, holds only 25.0% of the prefixes against 7 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 15.4% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2005–2009, and 3 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New St-Jovite numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

3 undated in the register.

Dialling a St-Jovite number

St-Jovite is served by 3 overlaid area codes (819, 873 and 468). A 468 number is no more “out of town” than a 819 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

St-Jovite shares area codes 819, 873 and 468 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Ottawa-Hull, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivieres, Drummondville, Victoriaville, Gatineau, Val-D'Or and Maniwaki. The largest of them, Ottawa-Hull, holds 122 prefixes in 468, 819 and 873; the smallest on the list, Plessisville, has just 11.

What a St-Jovite number tells you

A number attached to St-Jovite tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Quebec, most often TELUS Quebec. It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 8 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-Jovite: code 819-717 is recorded for TELUS Quebec, so every 819-717-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “St-Jovite, Quebec” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every St-Jovite prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 16 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

Elsewhere in Quebec