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any idea why this is and why? - 1/1/2012 5:55:06 PM

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Certain numbers in the beginning of a telephone number for example 741 and 523,* real telephone beginnings*makes my phone think it's long distance when it's not and I get the message we're sorry you must have a long distance phone service toc omplete this call. and it's incredibly frustrating:(

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RE: any idea why this is and why? - 1/1/2012 6:00:30 PM

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obviously they are long distance. Even though they may be near you doesn't mean they aren't long distance to the phone company.

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RE: any idea why this is and why? - 1/1/2012 6:05:27 PM

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That could be, one tele number is Roseville, which is about 25 minutes from us here at Sacramento, and another county I think.

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RE: any idea why this is and why? - 1/1/2012 6:27:06 PM

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Do you have to "dial" - press all ten digits? Some places (like Denver) have ten digits starting with 720 laid on top of the older 303 area codes. So, let's say I'm dialing 303-715-8333 andI I forget the 303, well, the system thinks I'm trying to get to 715...... whatever and cuts me off before I can get any further.

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715 is Wisconsin, so there you have it.

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RE: any idea why this is and why? - 1/1/2012 6:30:29 PM

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That could be, one tele number is Roseville, which is about 25 minutes from us here at Sacramento, and another county I think.
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obviously they are long distance. Even though they may be near you doesn't mean they aren't long distance to the phone company.

Other counties and other area codes are often long distance.
Why don't you call up your phone company and ask them to send you a list for your local (non-long distant) service?

edit to add: if you know someone with a BJ's membership you can buy one of their long distance phone cards: $20.00 for 700 minutes.

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RE: any idea why this is and why? - 1/1/2012 6:36:55 PM

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LOL Lance, no it's the beginning of a Roseville telephone number i just was not gonna post her whole telephone here. Daddy says that roseville is a different county that Sacramento. And my dad, he says you have to dial a 1 before you start you call. So, there we have it. It's considered long distance !

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Do you have to "dial" - press all ten digits? Some places (like Denver) have ten digits starting with 720 laid on top of the older 303 area codes. So, let's say I'm dialing 303-715-8333 andI I forget the 303, well, the system thinks I'm trying to get to 715...... whatever and cuts me off before I can get any further.

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715 is Wisconsin, so there you have it.

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RE: any idea why this is and why? - 1/1/2012 6:40:39 PM

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I used to have long distance as a part of my phone , cable, internet bundle, but when we moved on from that company I didn't bother to get long distance because I next to never call what I consider long distance any more. And if I do need to I ask to borrow my parents phone for a few minutes.The only person I did call regularly and talk to hours and hours was Daddy, when he was in SantaRosa, and then Petaluma.

But calling the phone company and asking for that would be a good idea, it just never occured to me that Roseville would be considered long distance to the phone company:)

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Other counties and other area codes are often long distance.
Why don't you call up your phone company and ask them to send you a list for your local (non-long distant) service?

edit to add: if you know someone with a BJ's membership you can buy one of their long distance phone cards: $20.00 for 700 minutes.

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RE: any idea why this is and why? - 1/1/2012 7:38:57 PM

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There's a reason why telco's typically list "long distance" calls using the wording "toll calls" instead: The exchange rate is not based on physical distance so much as the number of exchange stations that the call has to route through to reach it's destination (and other factors, but I don't want to get too technical here :-P). In some cities on state borders, the border can go right down the middle of your street and calling the neighbor across the street is considered an interstate toll call and billed as such.

In the US, a number is (XXX) YYY-ZZZZ, where ZZZZ is the subscriber number, YYY is the exchange number, and the XXX is the regional number (aka the area code). Originally, the numbers were assigned by geographic regions.. The regional was just that and often aligned with geopolitical boundaries. The exchange was often assigned to a single city (or a single district within a larger city if the city was very large), and the subscriber number assigned according to which block or city zone they were in. In the past, calls between different regional and exchange number was typically a physically long distance, so we got used to calling them "long distance." But today, with portable numbers (I still have a 586 area code on my cell phone, which I originally purchased in Detroit, Michigan, which has the 586 area code, but I'm now living in Bethesda, Maryland with a 301 area code.), and reallocation of entire blocks of numbers due to decreasing supply and increasing demand, it's become a lot more blurry.

Almost all PSTN (public switched telephone network) devices with any intelligence, such as cell phones, have lists which indicate which exchange numbers are "local." Anything not on that list is "toll," regardless of how near or far it is.

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