Phone prefixes in Lanigan, SK

In numbers

In-service prefixes

15

Telephone numbers covered

150,000

Carriers

9

Area codes

3

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

March 6, 2006

Most recent assignment

November 15, 2022

Lanigan’s share of its area codes

Within area code 306, Lanigan accounts for only 7 of 777 prefixes (0.9%): the code is dominated by Saskatoon and spread over 228 rate centres. Within area code 639, Lanigan accounts for only 7 of 776 prefixes (0.9%): the code is dominated by Regina and spread over 202 rate centres. Within area code 474, Lanigan accounts for only 1 of 88 prefixes (1.1%): the code is dominated by Saskatoon and spread over 70 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Iristel Inc. holds the largest share at 4 prefixes, 26.7% of the total, ahead of 8 other carriers. Code by code: in 306, SaskTel leads with 3 of 7 prefixes ahead of 3 others; in 639, Iristel Inc. leads with 2 of 7 prefixes ahead of 4 others; ISP Telecom Inc. is the only holder in 474. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Lanigan’s 3 area codes, while 8 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

3 of Lanigan’s 15 prefixes (20.0%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) and SaskTel Mobility. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Iristel Inc, SaskTel, Distributel and Access Communications Co-operative Limited. 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

Lanigan’s dated assignments run from 2006 to 2022. The busiest period was 2015–2019, when 5 prefixes went to 4 carriers. 3 prefixes (20%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 4 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Lanigan’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to SaskTel: this carrier made up the landscape before competition arrived. The first dated assignment went to Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) in 2006. The most recent arrivals are ISP Telecom Inc. (2022), Fibernetics Corporation (2022) and Access Communications Co-operative Limited (2018), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Lanigan.

Lanigan has only 15 prefixes, or 150,000 numbers: a small rate centre, where the arrival of a single new carrier visibly changes the landscape.

No single carrier dominates Lanigan: the leader, Iristel Inc., holds only 26.7% of the prefixes against 8 competitors, a sign of a highly fragmented market where cable companies, mobility brands and VoIP providers weigh as much as the incumbent.

Demand remains steady: 33.3% of the dated prefixes go back to the last ten years, the most active period being 2015–2019. The rate centre is growing at a regular rather than explosive pace.

3 undated in the register.

Dialling a Lanigan number

Lanigan is served by 3 overlaid area codes (306, 639 and 474). A 474 number is no more “out of town” than a 306 one; from abroad, dial +1 and the full ten digits.

The numbering neighbourhood

Lanigan shares area codes 306, 639 and 474 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 161 prefixes in 306, 474 and 639; the smallest on the list, Melville, has just 12.

What a Lanigan number tells you

A number attached to Lanigan tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Saskatchewan, most often Iristel Inc.. It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 9 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 Lanigan: code 306-801 is recorded for Iristel Inc., so every 306-801-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Lanigan, Saskatchewan” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Lanigan prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 15 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

Elsewhere in Saskatchewan