Phone prefixes in Kindersley, SK

In numbers

In-service prefixes

14

Telephone numbers covered

140,000

Carriers

7

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

May 11, 2001

Most recent assignment

April 29, 2019

Kindersley’s share of its area codes

Within area code 306, Kindersley accounts for only 11 of 777 prefixes (1.4%): the code is dominated by Saskatoon and spread over 228 rate centres. Within area code 639, Kindersley accounts for only 3 of 776 prefixes (0.4%): the code is dominated by Regina and spread over 202 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

SaskTel holds the largest share at 6 prefixes, 42.9% of the total, ahead of 6 other carriers. Code by code: in 306, SaskTel leads with 6 of 11 prefixes ahead of 3 others; in 639, Access Communications Co-operative Limited leads with 1 of 3 prefixes ahead of 2 others. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Kindersley’s 2 area codes, while 7 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

6 of Kindersley’s 14 prefixes (42.9%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: SaskTel Mobility, Bell Mobility, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) and TELUS Mobility. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by SaskTel, Access Communications Co-operative Limited and TELUS Integrated Communications. 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

Kindersley’s dated assignments run from 2001 to 2019. The busiest period was 2015–2019, when 4 prefixes went to 4 carriers. 7 prefixes (50%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. No prefix has been added since 2020: demand for numbers in Kindersley is flat.

Kindersley’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to SaskTel and SaskTel Mobility: these carriers made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) in 2001. The most recent arrivals are TELUS Integrated Communications (2019), Access Communications Co-operative Limited (2017) and Bell Mobility (2016), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Kindersley.

Kindersley has only 14 prefixes, or 140,000 numbers: a small rate centre, where the arrival of a single new carrier visibly changes the landscape.

SaskTel leads with 42.9% of the prefixes, but 6 competitors have set up in Kindersley: 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 2015–2019, and 7 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Kindersley numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

7 undated in the register.

Dialling a Kindersley number

Kindersley is served by 2 overlaid area codes (306 and 639). A 639 number is no more “out of town” than a 306 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Kindersley shares area codes 306 and 639 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Regina, Saskatoon, Moose Jaw, Prince Albert, North Battleford, Yorkton, Swift Current and Moosomin. The largest of them, Regina, holds 157 prefixes in 306 and 639; the smallest on the list, Watrous, has just 12.

What a Kindersley number tells you

A number attached to Kindersley tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Saskatchewan, most often SaskTel. It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 7 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 Saskatchewan area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Kindersley: code 306-379 is recorded for SaskTel, so every 306-379-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Kindersley, Saskatchewan” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Kindersley prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 14 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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