Phone prefixes in Villeroy, QC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

June 23, 2006

Most recent assignment

November 2, 2006

Villeroy’s share of its area code

Within area code 819, Villeroy accounts for only 2 of 770 prefixes (0.3%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 211 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

IVIC Telecom s.e.n.c holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 1 other carrier. Code by code: in 819, IVIC Telecom s.e.n.c leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others.

Wireless and wireline

None of Villeroy’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 2 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them IVIC Telecom s.e.n.c and Telebec Ltee. A call showing a Villeroy number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

Villeroy’s dated assignments run from 2006 to 2006. The busiest period was 2005–2009, when 2 prefixes went to 2 carriers. Every assignment is dated, the sign of a rate centre built entirely within the period CNAC has kept dated records. No prefix has been added since 2020: demand for numbers in Villeroy is flat.

None of Villeroy’s prefixes predates the dated records: the rate centre was built entirely in the competitive era. The first dated assignment went to IVIC Telecom s.e.n.c in 2006. The most recent arrivals are Telebec Ltee. (2006) and IVIC Telecom s.e.n.c (2006), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Villeroy.

Villeroy 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.

IVIC Telecom s.e.n.c leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in Villeroy: 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. New Villeroy numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

Dialling a Villeroy number

A single area code, 819, covers Villeroy, 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 +1 819 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Villeroy shares area code 819 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Ottawa-Hull, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivieres, Drummondville, Val-D'Or, Gatineau, Shawinigan and Rouyn-Noranda. The largest of them, Ottawa-Hull, holds 83 prefixes in 819; the smallest on the list, Plessisville, has just 6.

What a Villeroy number tells you

A number attached to Villeroy tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Quebec, most often IVIC Telecom s.e.n.c. 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 Villeroy: code 819-715 is recorded for IVIC Telecom s.e.n.c, so every 819-715-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Villeroy, Quebec” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Villeroy prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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