Phone prefixes in Westport

In numbers

In-service prefixes

4

Telephone numbers covered

40,000

Carriers

4

Area codes

3

Provinces and territories

2

First assignment

September 10, 2009

Most recent assignment

May 30, 2025

Provinces and territories

This name is used for separate rate centres in 2 provinces. The prefixes below share a name in the CNAC register but belong to different communities.

• Newfoundland and Labrador — 2 prefixes
• Ontario — 2 prefixes

Westport’s share of its area codes

Within area code 709, Westport accounts for only 2 of 630 prefixes (0.3%): the code is dominated by St. John's and spread over 209 rate centres. Within area code 343, Westport accounts for only 1 of 641 prefixes (0.2%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 116 rate centres. Within area code 613, Westport accounts for only 1 of 772 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Ottawa-Hull and spread over 132 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Aliant Telecom (NF) holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 25.0% of the total, ahead of 3 other carriers. Code by code: in 709, Aliant Telecom (NF) leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others; Bell Canada is the only holder in 343; Westport Telephone Company Ltd. is the only holder in 613. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Westport’s 3 area codes, while 4 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

None of Westport’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 4 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Aliant Telecom (NF), Bell Canada, Bragg Communications Inc and Westport Telephone Company Ltd. A call showing a Westport number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

Westport’s dated assignments run from 2009 to 2025. The busiest period was 2005–2009, when 1 prefixes went to 1 carrier. 2 prefixes (50%) 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.

Westport’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to Aliant Telecom (NF) and Westport Telephone Company Ltd: these carriers made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Bragg Communications Inc. in 2009. The most recent arrivals are Bell Canada (2025) and Bragg Communications Inc. (2009), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Westport.

Westport has just 4 prefixes (40,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

No single carrier dominates Westport: the leader, Aliant Telecom (NF), holds only 25.0% of the prefixes against 3 competitors, a sign of a highly fragmented market where cable companies, mobility brands and VoIP providers weigh as much as the incumbent.

Growth is recent: 50.0% of the dated prefixes were assigned in the last ten years, peaking in 2005–2009. Westport is among the rate centres where demand for numbers is still rising quickly.

2 undated in the register.

Dialling a Westport number

Westport is served by 3 overlaid area codes (709, 343 and 613). A 613 number is no more “out of town” than a 709 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Westport shares area codes 709, 343 and 613 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Ottawa-Hull, St. John's, Kingston, Belleville, Cornwall, Kanata-Stittsville, Brockville and Smiths Falls. The largest of them, Ottawa-Hull, holds 425 prefixes in 343 and 613; the smallest on the list, Vankleek Hill, has just 13.

What a Westport number tells you

A number attached to Westport tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Newfoundland and Labrador, most often Aliant Telecom (NF). It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 4 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 Newfoundland and Labrador area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Westport: code 709-224 is recorded for Aliant Telecom (NF), so every 709-224-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Westport, Newfoundland and Labrador” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Westport prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 4 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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