Phone prefixes in Sangudo, AB

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

March 2, 2006

Most recent assignment

March 2, 2006

Sangudo’s share of its area code

Within area code 780, Sangudo accounts for only 2 of 780 prefixes (0.3%): the code is dominated by Edmonton and spread over 195 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 50.0% of the total, ahead of 1 other carrier. Code by code: in 780, Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) leads with 1 of 2 prefixes ahead of 1 others.

Wireless and wireline

1 of Sangudo’s 2 prefixes (50.0%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless). Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by TELUS. 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

Sangudo’s dated assignments run from 2006 to 2006. The busiest period was 2005–2009, 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. No prefix has been added since 2020: demand for numbers in Sangudo is flat.

Sangudo’s oldest prefixes, the ones the register leaves undated, belong to TELUS: 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 Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) (2006), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Sangudo.

Sangudo 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.

Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless) leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in Sangudo: 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 2005–2009, and 1 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Sangudo numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

Dialling a Sangudo number

A single area code, 780, covers Sangudo, and it is not overlaid with any other code on this territory: one of the few parts of Canada where seven-digit local dialling may still work. From abroad, dial +1 780 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Sangudo shares area code 780 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie, St. Albert, Lloydminster, Sherwood Park, Bonnyville and Camrose. The largest of them, Edmonton, holds 274 prefixes in 780; the smallest on the list, Wainwright, has just 7.

What a Sangudo number tells you

A number attached to Sangudo tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in Alberta, most often Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless). 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 an Alberta area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Sangudo: code 780-269 is recorded for Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Wireless), so every 780-269-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Sangudo, Alberta” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Sangudo prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

Elsewhere in Alberta