Phone prefixes in Van Anda, BC

In numbers

In-service prefixes

1

Telephone numbers covered

10,000

Carriers

1

Area codes

1

Provinces and territories

1

Van Anda’s share of its area code

Within area code 604, Van Anda accounts for only 1 of 781 prefixes (0.1%): the code is dominated by Vancouver and spread over 44 rate centres.

Who holds these numbers

TELUS holds every prefix here. Code by code: TELUS is the only holder in 604.

Wireless and wireline

None of Van Anda’s holders carries a mobility brand in its registered name: all 1 prefixes belong to wireline or wholesale carriers, among them TELUS. A call showing a Van Anda number therefore nominally comes from a landline, cable or VoIP platform rather than a locally assigned cellphone.

How the allocation was built up

The register dates none of Van Anda’s assignments: all 1 prefixes predate CNAC’s record-keeping, the signature of an old, settled network where nothing has been added in decades.

TELUS is the only carrier ever recorded for Van Anda: no competitor has obtained a prefix here. A single-carrier rate centre is typical of small communities where only the incumbent ever built a network.

Van Anda has just 1 prefix (10,000 numbers): a very small rate centre, typical of a village or rural area served by a single switching office.

The local market is an allocation monopoly: TELUS holds every prefix, and no competitor has ever requested a code for Van Anda.

Dialling a Van Anda number

A single area code, 604, covers Van Anda, 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 +1 604 and the seven-digit number.

The numbering neighbourhood

Van Anda shares area code 604 with at least 20 other rate centres, including Vancouver, New Westminster, Richmond, Abbotsford, North Vancouver, Chilliwack, Newton and Whalley. The largest of them, Vancouver, holds 343 prefixes in 604; the smallest on the list, Mission, has just 8.

What a Van Anda number tells you

A number attached to Van Anda tells you that its prefix was issued to a carrier for this rate centre in British Columbia, most often TELUS. It does not tell you where the handset is today: a subscriber may have ported the number to any of the 1 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 British Columbia area code is easy to borrow to look local.

Reading a register entry for Van Anda: code 604-486 is recorded for TELUS, so every 604-486-XXXX number (10,000 possible) descends from that assignment. “Van Anda, British Columbia” there names a rate centre, not a municipality.

Every Van Anda prefix

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

Allocated prefixes

All 1 in-service prefixes, grouped by rate centre.

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