Iristel phone number blocks and OCNs in Canada

Iristel holds 21.5 million phone numbers in Canada, 7.5% of the numbers CNAC’s table of 2026-09-24 lists as allocated there, under 2 operating company numbers (OCNs); the largest, Iristel Inc. (OCN 154E), holds 20.9 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	Iristel
Numbers held	21,500,000 (7.5% of the allocated numbers in CNAC’s table)
Operating company numbers	2
Codes held	2,150
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

Who Iristel is

Iristel describes itself as a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) in Canada, founded in 1999 and based in Markham, Ontario.

Sources: Iristel: about us. Checked 2026-09-26.

The legal entities CNAC lists

Every holder in CNAC’s table that the brand map groups under Iristel, 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
Iristel Inc.	154E	2,093	20,930,000	voip
Iristel Inc.	346J	57	570,000	voip

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: 100.0% of Iristel’s numbers read as VoIP, 0.0% as mobile, and for 0.0% 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 Iristel is.

The area codes with most of its numbers

Iristel’s entities hold numbers under 52 area codes. The share is its part of the numbers CNAC lists as allocated under each code.

code	place	numbers	share of the code
825	Alberta	1,690,000	21.9%
365	Ontario	1,550,000	22.0%
236	British Columbia	1,120,000	15.0%
587	Alberta	1,090,000	14.0%
581	Quebec	920,000	11.8%
226	Ontario	830,000	10.7%
506	New Brunswick	780,000	11.5%
249	Ontario	760,000	12.9%
438	Montreal, QC	750,000	12.3%
672	British Columbia	730,000	22.5%
289	Ontario	710,000	9.2%
873	Quebec	710,000	10.6%

Assignments by year

The codes the table still lists under Iristel’s entities, by the year CNAC dates their assignment. A block returned since is no longer in the table, so earlier years read low; 100.0% of the rows carry a date.

year	codes	numbers
2026	10	100,000
2025	116	1.2 million
2024	272	2.7 million
2023	209	2.1 million
2022	122	1.2 million
2021	48	480,000
2020	141	1.4 million
2019	187	1.9 million
2018	87	870,000
2017	187	1.9 million
2006–2016	770	7.7 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 Iristel 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 Iristel 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.

Iristel 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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