Phone prefixes in Val Marie, SK

In numbers

In-service prefixes

2

Telephone numbers covered

20,000

Carriers

2

Area codes

2

Provinces and territories

1

First assignment

September 28, 2021

Most recent assignment

September 28, 2021

Val Marie’s share of its area codes

Within area code 306, Val Marie 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, Val Marie 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

SaskTel 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; SaskTel Mobility is the only holder in 639. No carrier holds prefixes in every one of Val Marie’s 2 area codes, while 2 appear in just one.

Wireless and wireline

1 of Val Marie’s 2 prefixes (50.0%) are held by carriers whose registered name marks a wireless business: SaskTel Mobility. Wireline prefixes still outnumber them, carried by 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

Val Marie’s dated assignments run from 2021 to 2021. 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.

Val Marie’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 2021. The most recent arrivals are SaskTel Mobility (2021), a sign that new carriers are still asking for numbers in Val Marie.

Val Marie 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.

SaskTel leads with 50.0% of the prefixes, but 1 competitors have set up in Val Marie: 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. Val Marie is among the rate centres where demand for numbers is still rising quickly.

Dialling a Val Marie number

Val Marie 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

Val Marie 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 Val Marie number tells you

A number attached to Val Marie 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 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 Val Marie: code 306-298 is recorded for SaskTel, so every 306-298-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Val Marie, Saskatchewan” there names a rate centre, not a municipality, and several area codes overlay it.

Every Val Marie prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

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

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