Phone prefixes in Thetford Mines, QC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

28

Telephone numbers covered

280,000

Carriers

14

Area codes

3

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

July 13, 2000

Most recent assignment

May 26, 2025

Thetford Mines’s share of its area codes

Within area code 418, Thetford Mines accounts for only 13 of 777 prefixes (1.7%): the code is dominated by Quebec and spread over 258 rate centres. Within area code 581, Thetford Mines accounts for only 13 of 778 prefixes (1.7%): the code is dominated by Quebec and spread over 232 rate centres. Within area code 367, Thetford Mines accounts for only 2 of 236 prefixes (0.8%): the code is dominated by Quebec and spread over 111 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Bell Canada holds the largest share at 6 prefixes, 21.4% of the total, ahead of 13 other carriers. Code by code: in 418, Bell Canada leads with 5 of 13 prefixes ahead of 6 others; in 581, Videotron Ltd. leads with 3 of 13 prefixes ahead of 8 others; in 367, Cogeco Connexion Inc. leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Thetford Mines’s 3 area codes, while 10 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

6 of Thetford Mines’s 28 prefixes (21.4%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility, TELUS Mobility, Fido Solutions Inc and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless). Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Bell Canada, Videotron Ltd, Iristel Inc 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

Thetford Mines’s dated assignments run from 2000 to 2025. The busiest period was 2005–2009, when 7 prefixes went to 6 carriers. 4 prefixes (14%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 3 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Thetford Mines’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 Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) in 2000. The most recent arrivals are Cogeco Connexion Inc. (2025), ISP Telecom Inc. (2025) and Comwave Networks (2015), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Thetford Mines.

Thetford Mines has only 28 prefixes, or 280,000 numbers: a small rate centre, where the arrival of a single new carrier visibly changes the landscape.

No single carrier dominates Thetford Mines: the leader, Bell Canada, holds only 21.4% of the prefixes against 13 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 12.5% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2005–2009, and 4 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Thetford Mines numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

4 undated in the register.

Dialling a Thetford Mines number

Thetford Mines is served by 3 overlaid area codes (418, 581 and 367). A 367 number is no more “out of town” than a 418 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Thetford Mines shares area codes 418, 581 and 367 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Quebec, Chicoutimi, Alma, Rimouski, Riviere-du-Loup, Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce, Levis and Saint-Georges-de-Beauce. The largest of them, Quebec, holds 283 prefixes in 367, 418 and 581; the smallest on the list, Chandler, has just 13.

What a Thetford Mines number tells you

A number attached to Thetford Mines 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 14 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 Thetford Mines: code 418-332 is recorded for Bell Canada, so every 418-332-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Thetford Mines, Quebec” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Thetford Mines prefix

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

Had a call from a Thetford Mines number?

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

1. Call back on a number you trust

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2. Report the fraud

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   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 28 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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