"Press 1 before dialing"?

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why does my cell say " please press 1 before dialing this number" when
people call me. The people who are calling me are all in baltimore
like me, and have local numbers so it shouldn't be long distance. why
does it do ths?


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In article <neia88.1ib2ia@WiFi-Forum_dot_com>,
neia88 <neia88.1ib2ia@WiFi-Forum_dot_com> wrote:

> why does my cell say " please press 1 before dialing this number"
> when people call me. The people who are calling me are all in
> baltimore like me, and have local numbers so it shouldn't be long
> distance. why does it do ths?

Your cell doesn't say it; their phone company says it.

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Michelle Steiner wrote:
> In article <neia88.1ib2ia@WiFi-Forum_dot_com>,
> neia88 <neia88.1ib2ia@WiFi-Forum_dot_com> wrote:
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>> why does my cell say " please press 1 before dialing this number"
>> when people call me. The people who are calling me are all in
>> baltimore like me, and have local numbers so it shouldn't be long
>> distance. why does it do ths?
>
> Your cell doesn't say it; their phone company says it.

I have a cellphone based in/with a Baltimore number, and never have to dial
1....However, when my friends in Balt call me, they do have to dial 1...(and
my friggen sister! I can call her with no 1, but if she calls me she has to
add it!) Not toll, but the way the Balt phone co does business... grumble
grumble, "the govt is gonna make us send phone calls to the cell site, we
are gonna make it a difficult as possible". Hate to say it, but if you can
imagine ANYTHING whacky or annoying, the co's in Balt do it, and go out of
there way to think up new ways to annoy the snot out of people, and make it
as difficult as possible.....

Needless to say, I left there, now I'm in Vegas, and been here for almost a
year.
 
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Remember, Baltimore has two area codes. I assume most of your friends
and family have a 410 area code, while your phone is probably a 443
area code. The "1" is just to denote the different area code and does
NOT necessarily mean its a toll call.

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"Diamond Dave" <dmine45.NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:t8vjt01if1vkdhsjmnnj6bnjits30j9fn3@4ax.com...
| Remember, Baltimore has two area codes. I assume most of your friends
| and family have a 410 area code, while your phone is probably a 443
| area code. The "1" is just to denote the different area code and does
| NOT necessarily mean its a toll call.

DFW has multiple area codes and no "1" is requried.
 
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As viewed from alt.cellular.verizon, Not Me wrote:

>"Diamond Dave" wrote...
>|Remember, Baltimore has two area codes. I assume most of your
>|friends |and family have a 410 area code, while your phone is
>|probably a 443 area code. The "1" is just to denote the different
>|area code and does NOT necessarily mean its a toll call.
>
>DFW has multiple area codes and no "1" is requried.

Why do you think Randy Newman sang about Baltimore and not DFW? :)
www.lyricsdepot.com/randy_newman/baltimore.html

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In article <t8vjt01if1vkdhsjmnnj6bnjits30j9fn3@4ax.com>,
Diamond Dave <dmine45.NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Remember, Baltimore has two area codes. I assume most of your friends
> and family have a 410 area code, while your phone is probably a 443
> area code. The "1" is just to denote the different area code and does
> NOT necessarily mean its a toll call.

the Phoenix area has three area codes (602, 480, 623), and not only do
we not have to dial 1, if we do dial 1, we get a recording telling us
that we should not dial 1, and to try again.

Personally, I think the national phone system should go to a 10-digit
system, and require everyone to dial all ten digits, and forget about
that prefix completely.

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On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 00:42:43 -0700, Michelle Steiner
<michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

>the Phoenix area has three area codes (602, 480, 623), and not only do
>we not have to dial 1, if we do dial 1, we get a recording telling us
>that we should not dial 1, and to try again.

If that's the case then Qworst has mis-managed their system. 1 + 10
should always be allowed no matter if it's local or toll. To have
otherwise is just stupid and not protecting anyone from anything
except perhaps preventing some people from making no muss no fuss
calling so they won't have to guess what's permissable. They won't
have to guess is it 7 digits? Is it 10 digits? Is it 11 digits? 7
or 10 digits should be there only to protect people from making toll
calls if that's not their intention.

>Personally, I think the national phone system should go to a 10-digit
>system, and require everyone to dial all ten digits, and forget about
>that prefix completely.

Well, some of us still have the ability to dial just 7 digits and we
quite like it that way. If you're unhappy the way things are in
Arizona just get a petition going to the Arizona PUC and ask them to
change it.

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Michelle Steiner wrote:
> In article <t8vjt01if1vkdhsjmnnj6bnjits30j9fn3@4ax.com>,
> Diamond Dave <dmine45.NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
>>Remember, Baltimore has two area codes. I assume most of your friends
>>and family have a 410 area code, while your phone is probably a 443
>>area code. The "1" is just to denote the different area code and does
>>NOT necessarily mean its a toll call.
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>
> the Phoenix area has three area codes (602, 480, 623), and not only do
> we not have to dial 1, if we do dial 1, we get a recording telling us
> that we should not dial 1, and to try again.
>
> Personally, I think the national phone system should go to a 10-digit
> system, and require everyone to dial all ten digits, and forget about
> that prefix completely.

Just for the record: when using a Verizon cell phone, it is
unnecessary, for calls within North America, to dial the prefix 1. All
that is required is the area code and phone number
 
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I like dialing most of my local calls with 7 digits. The one is
required to let the system will know not to ignore digits past 7. There
is not much guessing. There is no 10 digits, only 7 or 11. If you dial
wrong, the recordings let you know.
 
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Jerome Zelinske wrote:
> I like dialing most of my local calls with 7 digits. The one is
> required to let the system will know not to ignore digits past 7. There is
> not much guessing. There is no 10 digits, only 7 or 11. If
> you dial wrong, the recordings let you know.

Sounds like you are in one of those weenie places like Baltimore... Hate to
tell you, but most of the rest of the country don't have to dial one for
local 10 digit.. only a few unfortunate areas have to do that, and they pass
out lies to their consumers to cover/justify their idiocy/ineptitude.
 
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but there is at least one major city
where you have to dial all 10 digits to make a local call. No "1" as
with a long-distance call. That's in Houston; the area codes have been
over-layed so that you can one of the 3 area codes in any part of the city.

I seem to recall that there is an option of ignoring the "1". In any
event, even when making a long-distance call, I only dial 10 digits.

Tom S.
Houston, TX

Jerome Zelinske wrote:
> I like dialing most of my local calls with 7 digits. The one is
> required to let the system will know not to ignore digits past 7. There
> is not much guessing. There is no 10 digits, only 7 or 11. If you dial
> wrong, the recordings let you know.
 
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On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:08:45 GMT, Peter Ross <pross@att.net> wrote:
>Just for the record: when using a Verizon cell phone, it is
>unnecessary, for calls within North America, to dial the prefix 1. All
>that is required is the area code and phone number

When I'm roaming in Montreal, either Telus or Bell (I forget which one)
requires that I dial a 1 first. A real PITA since I only have the normal
10 digits programmed in my address book.
 
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On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 06:20:09 -0800, Joseph <JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>7 or 10 digits should be there only to protect people from making
>toll calls if that's not their intention.

I'm not sure what you're saying. I can make toll calls with only 7
digits. No '1'. No area code.
 
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Bob Scheurle wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 06:20:09 -0800, Joseph <JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> 7 or 10 digits should be there only to protect people from making
>> toll calls if that's not their intention.
>
> I'm not sure what you're saying. I can make toll calls with only 7
> digits. No '1'. No area code.

Yea, but those are only "local toll" calls. Can't get hurt as badly
as when the kid dials the weather in Moscow. :)

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I am glad I only have to dial 7 digits for most of my local calls.
Here you can not make a long distance call without dialing the 1. If
you try, you would be connected to a number in your area code with the
other area code as the exchange and the other exchange plus the first
digit of the number as the number. There are a few exchanges in the
surrounding area code that are local, and for those you dial the 11
digits.
 
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There are a few exchanges in the surrounding area code that are local,
but you have to dial 11 digits to call them. It makes sense to me that
if you are going to call another area code, you have to tell the system
that you are going to do that by dialing the 1 first. The total number
of area codes and exchanges are reduced because none of them can start
with a 1. That seems a good trade off for keeping local numbers 7 digits.