Phone prefixes in Stoughton, SK

In numbers

In-service prefixes

4

Telephone numbers covered

40,000

Carriers

4

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

March 15, 2017

Most recent assignment

June 7, 2017

Stoughton’s share of its area codes

Within area code 639, Stoughton accounts for only 3 of 776 prefixes (0.4%): the code is dominated by Regina and spread over 202 rate centres. Within area code 306, Stoughton accounts for only 1 of 777 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Saskatoon and spread over 228 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

Access Communications Co-operative Limited holds the largest share at 1 prefixes, 25.0% of the total, ahead of 3 other carriers. Code by code: in 639, Access Communications Co-operative Limited leads with 1 of 3 prefixes ahead of 2 others; SaskTel is the only holder in 306. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Stoughton’s 2 area codes, while 4 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

2 of Stoughton’s 4 prefixes (50.0%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: Bell Mobility and SaskTel Mobility. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by Access Communications Co-operative Limited and SaskTel. 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

Stoughton’s dated assignments run from 2017 to 2017. The busiest period was 2015–2019, when 3 prefixes went to 3 carriers. 1 prefixes (25%) 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 Stoughton is flat.

Stoughton’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 SaskTel Mobility in 2017. The most recent arrivals are Bell Mobility (2017), Access Communications Co-operative Limited (2017) and SaskTel Mobility (2017), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Stoughton.

Stoughton has just 4 prefixes (40,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

No single carrier dominates Stoughton: the leader, Access Communications Co-operative Limited, holds only 25.0% of the prefixes against 3 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 0.0% of the dated prefixes are less than ten years old, most having been handed out in 2015–2019, and 1 prefixes go back to the undated monopoly era. New Stoughton numbers mostly come out of blocks that were assigned long ago.

Dialling a Stoughton number

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

The numbering neighbourhood

Stoughton shares area codes 639 and 306 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 Stoughton number tells you

A number attached to Stoughton 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 4 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 Stoughton: code 639-659 is recorded for Access Communications Co-operative Limited, so every 639-659-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Stoughton, Saskatchewan” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Stoughton prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 4 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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