Phone prefixes in Meota, SK

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

November 30, 2023

Most recent assignment

November 30, 2023

Meota’s share of its area codes

Within area code 306, Meota accounts for only 1 of 777 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Saskatoon and spread over 228 rate centres. Within area code 639, Meota accounts for only 1 of 776 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Regina and spread over 202 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Access Communications Co-operative Limited holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 1 other carrier. Code by code: SaskTel is the only holder in 306; Access Communications Co-operative Limited is the only holder in 639. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Meota’s 2 area codes, while 2 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

None of Meota’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 2 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them Access Communications Co-operative Limited and SaskTel. A call showing a Meota number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

Meota’s dated assignments run from 2023 to 2023. The busiest period was 2020–2024, when 1 prefixes went to 1 carrier. 1 prefixes (50%) carry no date in the register: these are the historic pre-1999 assignments, the wireline bedrock of the rate centre. Since 2020 another 1 prefixes have been added, so the rate centre is still growing.

Meota’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 Access Communications Co-operative Limited in 2023. The most recent arrivals are Access Communications Co-operative Limited (2023), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Meota.

Meota has just 2 prefixes (20,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

Access Communications Co-operative Limited leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in Meota: a market where the incumbent keeps the edge without exclusivity.

Growth is recent: 100.0% of the dated prefixes were assigned in the last ten years, peaking in 2020–2024. Meota is among the rate centres where demand for numbers is still rising quickly.

Dialling a Meota number

Meota 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

Meota 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, Rosthern, has just 12.

What a Meota number tells you

A number attached to Meota tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Saskatchewan, most often Access Communications Co-operative Limited. It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 2 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 Meota: code 639-705 is recorded for Access Communications Co-operative Limited, so every 639-705-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Meota, Saskatchewan” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Meota prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 2 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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