Phone prefixes in Edmonton, AB

In numbers

In-service prefixes

505

Telephone numbers covered

5,050,000

Carriers

18

Area codes

4

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

August 30, 1999

Most recent assignment

June 12, 2026

Edmonton’s share of its area codes

Within area code 780, Edmonton takes 274 of 780 prefixes (35.1%), a substantial slice of a code shared by 195 rate centres, the largest of them Edmonton. Within area code 587, Edmonton takes 124 of 779 prefixes (15.9%), a substantial slice of a code shared by 137 rate centres, the largest of them Calgary. Within area code 825, Edmonton takes 91 of 770 prefixes (11.8%), a substantial slice of a code shared by 301 rate centres, the largest of them Calgary. Within area code 368, Edmonton takes 16 of 85 prefixes (18.8%), a substantial slice of a code shared by 14 rate centres, the largest of them Calgary.

Who holds these numbers

TELUS holds the largest share at 141 prefixes, 27.9% of the total, ahead of 17 other carriers. Code by code: in 780, TELUS leads with 106 of 274 prefixes ahead of 15 others; in 587, TELUS Mobility leads with 28 of 124 prefixes ahead of 13 others; in 825, Bell Mobility leads with 18 of 91 prefixes ahead of 11 others; in 368, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) leads with 8 of 16 prefixes ahead of 4 others. 4 carriers hold prefixes in every one of Edmonton’s 4 area codes, while 4 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

236 of Edmonton’s 505 prefixes (46.7%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: TELUS Mobility, Bell Mobility, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) and Fido Solutions Inc. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by TELUS, Iristel Inc, Videotron Ltd and Shaw Telecom Inc. 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

Edmonton’s dated assignments run from 1999 to 2026. The busiest period was 2010–2014, when 109 prefixes went to 12 carriers. 115 prefixes (23%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 68 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Edmonton’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to TELUS, TELUS Mobility and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless): 6 carriers made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) in 1999. The most recent arrivals are IXICA Communications Inc. (2018), Comwave Networks (2013) and Distributel (2010), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Edmonton.

With 505 prefixes, Edmonton has a theoretical pool of 5,050,000 numbers: metropolitan-scale capacity, where running out of free combinations is the very reason overlay area codes exist.

No single carrier dominates Edmonton: the leader, TELUS, holds only 27.9% of the prefixes against 17 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 17.4% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2010–2014, and 115 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Edmonton numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

The register also shows 9 prefixes assigned but not yet in service in Edmonton (Bell Mobility, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) and TELUS Mobility): numbers that will start showing up on call displays in the coming months.

115 undated in the register.

Dialling a Edmonton number

Edmonton is served by 4 overlaid area codes (780, 587, 825 and 368). A 368 number is no more “out of town” than a 780 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Edmonton shares area codes 780, 587, 825 and 368 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Calgary, Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie, Red Deer, Lethbridge, Sherwood Park, Peace River and St. Albert. The largest of them, Calgary, holds 388 prefixes in 368, 587 and 825; the smallest on the list, Hinton, has just 17.

What a Edmonton number tells you

A number attached to Edmonton tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Alberta, most often TELUS. It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 18 carriers present here or to a VoIP service usable anywhere. Nor does it tell you who is calling: caller ID can be spoofed, and an Alberta area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Edmonton: code 368-222 is recorded for IXICA Communications Inc., so every 368-222-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Edmonton, Alberta” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Edmonton prefix

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

What people check and report about Edmonton numbers

Searches typed into this site's lookup form since July 28, 2026, plus the verdicts and moderated reports visitors left. A search usually follows a missed call.

Checks

105

Different numbers

104

Different people

100

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Verdicts on these numbers mostly describe telemarketing or nuisance calls rather than fraud.

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Allocated prefixes

Showing 400 of 505 prefixes, largest rate centres first.

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