Phone prefixes in St-Pascal, QC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

May 2, 2007

Most recent assignment

May 2, 2007

St-Pascal’s share of its area code

Within area code 418, St-Pascal accounts for only 2 of 777 prefixes (0.3%): the code is dominated by Quebec and spread over 258 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 1 other carrier. Code by code: in 418, Bell Canada leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others.

Wireless and wireline

None of St-Pascal’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 2 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Bell Canada and Videotron Ltd. A call showing a St-Pascal number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

St-Pascal’s dated assignments run from 2007 to 2007. The busiest period was 2005–2009, when 1 prefixes went to 1 carrier. 1 prefixes (50%) 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 St-Pascal is flat.

St-Pascal’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 Videotron Ltd. in 2007. The most recent arrivals are Videotron Ltd. (2007), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in St-Pascal.

St-Pascal has just 2 prefixes (20,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

Bell Canada leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in St-Pascal: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Allocation is mature: only 0.0% 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-Pascal numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

Dialling a St-Pascal number

A single area code, 418, covers St-Pascal, 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 +1 418 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

St-Pascal shares area code 418 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Quebec, Chicoutimi, Rimouski, Alma, Riviere-du-Loup, Saint-Georges-de-Beauce, Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce and Thetford Mines. The largest of them, Quebec, holds 142 prefixes in 418; the smallest on the list, Saint-Tite, has just 6.

What a St-Pascal number tells you

A number attached to St-Pascal tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Quebec, 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 2 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-Pascal: code 418-492 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 418-492-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “St-Pascal, Quebec” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every St-Pascal prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 2 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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