Eastlink phone number blocks and OCNs in Canada

Eastlink holds 5.2 million phone numbers in Canada, 1.8% of the numbers CNAC’s table of 2026-09-24 lists as allocated there, under 2 operating company numbers (OCNs); the largest, Bragg Communications Inc. (OCN 4878), holds 4.5 million. The carrier a phone lookup names for a number is the holder of the block the number sits in, as the regulator lists it: the original allocation, not the caller, the app or the network that serves a ported number today.

Brand	Eastlink
Numbers held	5,210,000 (1.8% of the allocated numbers in CNAC’s table)
Operating company numbers	2
Codes held	521
Table	CNAC central office code status, file dated 2026-09-24
Terms	no licence published (CNAC)
Grouped by	Spaw’s carrier brand map of 2026-09-24
Region	Canada

The legal entities CNAC lists

Every holder in CNAC’s table that the brand map groups under Eastlink, by the numbers allocated to it and with its operating company number (OCN), the code the table identifies a carrier by. Names are printed as the regulator writes them. Holdings are counted in numbers, not table rows, because rows differ in size: a central office code (NPA-NXX) is 10,000 numbers.

holder	ocn	codes	numbers	read as
Bragg Communications Inc.	4878	449	4,490,000	unsettled
Bragg Communications Inc.	421G	72	720,000	unsettled

How a lookup reads these numbers

The North American plan leaves a number’s line type to the holder of its block, so a lookup reads it from the holder: 0.0% of Eastlink’s numbers read as VoIP, 0.0% as mobile, and for 100.0% the holder settles neither, so the line type stays fixed_line_or_mobile.

The reading is Spaw’s classification of each holder: the holder’s regulatory filing (in the US its FCC Form 499 filing type) and its own description, matched on the name the regulator’s table gives it. It is a lower bound, not a measurement of the numbers, and it says what a lookup answers, not what Eastlink is.

The area codes with most of its numbers

Eastlink’s entities hold numbers under 17 area codes. The share is its part of the numbers CNAC lists as allocated under each code.

code	place	numbers	share of the code
902	Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island	1,420,000	18.2%
709	Newfoundland and Labrador	1,200,000	19.0%
782	Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island	680,000	14.7%
705	Ontario	500,000	6.5%
226	Ontario	340,000	4.4%
506	New Brunswick	340,000	5.0%
780	Alberta	150,000	1.9%
249	Ontario	140,000	2.4%
613	Ontario	120,000	1.6%
778	British Columbia	110,000	1.4%
548	Ontario	70,000	1.4%
368	Alberta	30,000	2.9%

Assignments by year

The codes the table still lists under Eastlink’s entities, by the year CNAC dates their assignment. A block returned since is no longer in the table, so earlier years read low; 99.8% of the rows carry a date.

year	codes	numbers
2026	14	140,000
2025	28	280,000
2024	5	50,000
2023	13	130,000
2022	6	60,000
2021	2	20,000
2019	6	60,000
2018	24	240,000
2017	9	90,000
2016	46	460,000
1999–2015	367	3.7 million

What this page cannot say

A regulator’s table records the original allocation of each block, never who serves a number today: a number ported away from Eastlink keeps its block, and a lookup still names the block’s holder for it.
The carrier a lookup names is not the caller, the app or the subscriber. Caller ID can be spoofed, so the holder of a calling number’s block may not have carried the call at all.
Spaw does no reverse lookup and names no subscriber: nothing here says who owns or uses any number.
Shares are shares of the regulator’s own table, not of subscribers, lines in service or traffic.
In a pooled US code a lookup names the holder of the number’s own thousands-block where NANPA lists one, otherwise the code holder; Canada’s table is code-level.
The grouping under Eastlink is Spaw’s carrier brand map of 2026-09-24: legal entities, subsidiaries and former names under the brand the network trades as today. Networks change hands, and the map is reviewed at least yearly.

Eastlink and the other brand names on this page are trademarks of their owners, used only to name the networks the regulators’ tables list. Spaw is not affiliated with any of them.

Other carriers in Canada

CNAC central office code status file dated 2026-09-24 · carrier brand map 2026-09-24 · page changed 2026-09-24

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