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The northern two thirds of Alberta, including Edmonton, received area code 780, while leaving 403 to serve Calgary and southern Alberta. The projected exhaust dates for area codes 403 and 780 were March and October 2009, respectively. In 1997, two area codes, 587 and 825, were reserved by Bellcore for Alberta. [1]
As of March 2021, there are over 33 million wireless subscriptions in Canada. [1] Approximately 90% of Canadian mobile phone users subscribe to one of the four largest national telecommunication companies (Rogers Wireless, Telus Mobility, Bell Mobility and Freedom Mobile) or one of their subsidiary brands.
Mobile phone providers are general free to support any wireless standards with either CDMA or GSM; both are being supplanted by UMTS. Telus shut down its CDMA in mid-2015; Bell Mobility's CDMA network, the country's last major provider of that type, went dark on January 1, 2017. [3]
On September 20, 2008, Telus Mobility began to assign 587 telephone numbers to new customers in Calgary and Edmonton. On April 9, 2016, all three numbering plan areas of the province were overlaid with an additional area code, 825. [5] On January 21, 2022, the province was once again overlaid with another area code, 368. [6] [7]
Bell Mobility Inc. is a Canadian wireless network operator and the division of Bell Canada which offers wireless services across Canada. It operates networks using LTE and HSPA+ on its mainstream networks. Bell Mobility is the third-largest wireless carrier in Canada, with 10.1 million subscribers as of Q3 2020. [1]
Telus Corporation (also shortened and referred to as Telus Corp.) is a Canadian publicly traded holding company and conglomerate, headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, which is the parent company of several subsidiaries: Telus Communications Inc. offers telephony, television, data and Internet services; Telus Mobility, offers wireless services; Telus Health operates companies that ...
Fido Solutions Inc. is a Canadian mobile network operator owned by Rogers Communications. Since its acquisition by Rogers in 2004, it has operated as a Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) using the Rogers Wireless network. Fido pioneered the concept of providing unlimited service in select Canadian cities.
Koodo Mobile is a Canadian mobile flanker brand [1] [2] started by Telus in 2008 and mostly oriented toward younger customers. [3] Koodo differs from its parent Telus by not requiring a fixed term contract. [ 4 ]