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Must you dial 10 digits for local numbers?
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| Bob Horvath 2005-05-19, 12:12 pm |
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Today when I dialed a particular local number with a 221 prefix
that is within my area code, it went to my voicemail. The only way I
could get the party was to include the 717 area code. I called CS, and
they said due to an increase of numbers,I will be eventually dialing
the area code for all numbers. In fact, he was surprised that I could
dial most numbers without the area code.
I stupidly accepted his answer and we hung up, then I realized it
still did not solve the problem of it going to my voicemail by dialing
some one else's number. I am going to be calling them back.
I was wondering how many other of you have to dial a ten digit
number on T-mobil.
Bob
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| danny burstein 2005-05-19, 12:12 pm |
| In < lgj5719dc5ug6cat2ndo
6euinmhd3qfse3@4ax.com> Bob Horvath <bhorvath13@comcast.net> writes:
> I was wondering how many other of you have to dial a ten digit
>number on T-mobil.
get over it.
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| Bob Horvath wrote:
> I was wondering how many other of you have to dial a ten digit
> number on T-mobil.
I have always been too lazy to figure out when to dial 7 and when 10
digits, so I've always been dialing 10 digits anyway. What's your problem
again?
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| Bob Horvath 2005-05-19, 12:12 pm |
| On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:40:01 GMT, Bob Horvath wrote:
I was asking why I had to dial 10 on a certain exchange and only have
to dial the regular 7 on the other exchanges.
>Bob Horvath wrote:
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>I have always been too lazy to figure out when to dial 7 and when 10
>digits, so I've always been dialing 10 digits anyway. What's your problem
>again?
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| Bob Horvath 2005-05-19, 12:12 pm |
| On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:28:23 +0000 (UTC), Bob Horvath wrote:
>In < lgj5719dc5ug6cat2ndo
6euinmhd3qfse3@4ax.com> Bob Horvath <bhorvath13@comcast.net> writes:
That's a hell of an intelligent answer.
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>get over it.
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| Felipe Garcia 2005-05-19, 12:12 pm |
| fyi, in nyc you have to dial 10 digits no matter what.
"Bob Horvath" <bhorvath13@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:40:01 GMT, Bob Horvath wrote:
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> I was asking why I had to dial 10 on a certain exchange and only have
> to dial the regular 7 on the other exchanges.
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| BruceR 2005-05-19, 12:12 pm |
| Here in Honolulu 7 or 10 digits works for all Oahu calls (if you're on
Oahu when calling). All interisland calls, which are the same area code,
require 10 digits. I've programmed all my phonebook numbers as 10 digit
so they work when traveling. If 10 digits were all of a sudden required
in your area I'd expect you to hear an error message of some kind rather
than being sent to your own voicemail! Something's screwy. Let us know
what you learn. While the issue of having to dial 7 or 10 digits is
trivial, some of us are like you and curious about how and why these
things work the way they do.
From:Bob Horvath
bhorvath13@comcast.net
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> On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:40:01 GMT, Bob Horvath wrote:
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> I was asking why I had to dial 10 on a certain exchange and only have
> to dial the regular 7 on the other exchanges.
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| Bob Horvath 2005-05-19, 12:12 pm |
| On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:42:43 GMT, Bob Horvath wrote:
OK, I guess that's what it's coming to.
Thanks
>fyi, in nyc you have to dial 10 digits no matter what.
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| Bob Horvath 2005-05-19, 12:12 pm |
| On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 02:54:39 GMT, Bob Horvath wrote:
The thing I have to check out is why it goes to my voicemail.
>Here in Honolulu 7 or 10 digits works for all Oahu calls (if you're on
>Oahu when calling). All interisland calls, which are the same area code,
>require 10 digits. I've programmed all my phonebook numbers as 10 digit
>so they work when traveling. If 10 digits were all of a sudden required
>in your area I'd expect you to hear an error message of some kind rather
>than being sent to your own voicemail! Something's screwy. Let us know
>what you learn. While the issue of having to dial 7 or 10 digits is
>trivial, some of us are like you and curious about how and why these
>things work the way they do.
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>
>
>From:Bob Horvath
>bhorvath13@comcast.net
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| Chris Tribiono 2005-05-19, 12:12 pm |
| Why do you schmucks feel the need to jump down the guy's throat? It's a
legitimate question. Can you seriously not contain yourselves that you have
to respond like a uneducated pieces of s_it just because you don't like his
question? Unbelievable.
"René" <kar98@the-coalition.us> wrote in message
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> Bob Horvath wrote:
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> I have always been too lazy to figure out when to dial 7 and when 10
> digits, so I've always been dialing 10 digits anyway. What's your problem
> again?
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| delysid 2005-05-19, 12:12 pm |
| Bob Horvath wrote:
> Today when I dialed a particular local number with a 221 prefix
> that is within my area code, it went to my voicemail. The only way I
> could get the party was to include the 717 area code. I called CS, and
> they said due to an increase of numbers,I will be eventually dialing
> the area code for all numbers. In fact, he was surprised that I could
> dial most numbers without the area code.
> I stupidly accepted his answer and we hung up, then I realized it
> still did not solve the problem of it going to my voicemail by dialing
> some one else's number. I am going to be calling them back.
> I was wondering how many other of you have to dial a ten digit
> number on T-mobil.
> Bob
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I only have to dial 7 digits for local numbers in my area. I am in
Cincinnati, OH in the 513 area code. The interesting thing is that when
I cross over the border into Northern Kentucky, which is the 859 area
code, I can still reach 513 numbers with only 7 digits. I guess it
depends on how the switches are programmed?
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| John S 2005-05-19, 12:12 pm |
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"Bob Horvath" <bhorvath13@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I was wondering how many other of you have to dial a ten digit
> number on T-mobil.
I have been dialing 10 digits for years now on all of the carriers that I
have service with (AWS, Cingular,T-Mobile, & Sprint PCS). I have all my
phone book entries done with the 10 digits and a lot of the with the +<phone
number>. You must be a new user or have never traveled.
It used to be that when you were in any area other than home you had to dial
all 10 digits, but when you called a local (to where you were) you had to
include the 1. Then basically all cellular companies did away with the 1
requirement regardless of where you are.
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| John S 2005-05-19, 12:12 pm |
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"Felipe Garcia" <fgarci24@nyc.rr.comspam> wrote in message
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> fyi, in nyc you have to dial 10 digits no matter what.
This is true in a lot of the country. Even way out here in the middle of the
countryside in East Texas we have to dial 10 digits from out land line
phones too!
I seem to remember reading somewhere recently that this is going to become
neessary universaly across the USA.
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| John S wrote:
> This is true in a lot of the country. Even way out here in the middle
> of the countryside in East Texas we have to dial 10 digits from out
> land line phones too!
In fact when I moved to aforementioned location a few years ago, I was
surprised that it still was at 7 digits back then.
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| Evan Platt 2005-05-19, 12:12 pm |
| On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 07:56:40 -0400, delysid
< delysid@nospaminmyls
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>I only have to dial 7 digits for local numbers in my area. I am in
>Cincinnati, OH in the 513 area code. The interesting thing is that when
>I cross over the border into Northern Kentucky, which is the 859 area
>code, I can still reach 513 numbers with only 7 digits. I guess it
>depends on how the switches are programmed?
Not really.. if you don't have to dial 10 digits to dial in the same
area code, you generally wouldn't have to dial 10 digits when you
travel. Your phone is still area code 513 no matter where you go.
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| Bob Horvath 2005-05-19, 12:12 pm |
| On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 13:39:13 GMT, Bob Horvath wrote:
I've been with them for 6 years. If you noticed in my post, the 221
exchange in my area code is the ONLY one I have to dial 717 before it.
The other exchange numbers do not require the area code.
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>"Bob Horvath" <bhorvath13@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:lgj5719dc5ug6ca
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>I have been dialing 10 digits for years now on all of the carriers that I
>have service with (AWS, Cingular,T-Mobile, & Sprint PCS). I have all my
>phone book entries done with the 10 digits and a lot of the with the +<phone
>number>. You must be a new user or have never traveled.
>
>It used to be that when you were in any area other than home you had to dial
>all 10 digits, but when you called a local (to where you were) you had to
>include the 1. Then basically all cellular companies did away with the 1
>requirement regardless of where you are.
>
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| Bob Horvath 2005-05-19, 12:12 pm |
| On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 04:07:21 -0400, Bob Horvath wrote:
Ya know Chris, I just consider the mentality, age, intelligence, etc
of those type of posters. They never go away.
>Why do you schmucks feel the need to jump down the guy's throat? It's a
>legitimate question. Can you seriously not contain yourselves that you have
>to respond like a uneducated pieces of s_it just because you don't like his
>question? Unbelievable.
>
>
>"René" <kar98@the-coalition.us> wrote in message
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| Chris Tribiono wrote:
> Why do you schmucks feel the need to jump down the guy's throat? It's a
> legitimate question. Can you seriously not contain yourselves that you
> have to respond like a uneducated pieces of s_it just because you don't
> like his question? Unbelievable.
Geez, relax, you "schmuck". A bit overly sensitive, aren't we? I merely
wanted to know if there's a real life application in which the 7/10 digit
issue could be a problem.
Always willing to learn something new, and expecting your profuse
apologies,
René
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| Isaiah Beard 2005-05-19, 12:12 pm |
| Bob Horvath wrote:[color=darkred
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> On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:42:43 GMT, Bob Horvath wrote:
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> OK, I guess that's what it's coming to.
> Thanks
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Yeah, it's pretty much spreading in areas that are heavily populated.
As area codes get overlaid on top of each other, 10 digit dialing is
going to be required in more and more places.
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| klugja@hotmail.com 2005-05-19, 12:26 pm |
| In MN they forced the phone company (Qwest) to do splits by city. We
have 7 digit dialing for land lines. T-mobile and AT&T/Cingular has 7
digit dialing, at least if the tower is in your phone's area code.
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"Bob Horvath" <bhorvath13@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Today when I dialed a particular local number with a 221 prefix
> that is within my area code, it went to my voicemail. The only way I
> could get the party was to include the 717 area code. I called CS, and
> they said due to an increase of numbers,I will be eventually dialing
> the area code for all numbers. In fact, he was surprised that I could
> dial most numbers without the area code.
I don't here in California. If a number is in the same area code (310) as I
am, I dial the 7 digit number, and that works.
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| BruceR 2005-07-01, 4:55 pm |
| It varies from city to city. Here in Hawaii with one statewide area
code, we dial 7 digits (10 is allowed) if on the same island or 10
digits interisland.
In Houston, 10 digits is required for all local calls.
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> "Bob Horvath" <bhorvath13@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I don't here in California. If a number is in the same area code
> (310) as I am, I dial the 7 digit number, and that works.
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