moving from 416 to 905 - mobile question
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Keep your 416 #, don't change to 905.
With 905, everytime you call GTA, it is a L/D. If your all of your contacts are in Vaughan, then it might justify to change to 905.
With 905, everytime you call GTA, it is a L/D. If your all of your contacts are in Vaughan, then it might justify to change to 905.
i think when you make calls, it matters which towers your signal bounces off of, if your in vaughn calling local, with another area code, then its a local call, but if your into another area code, and your trying to call then its long distance. just because you have a 416 area code, doesnt mean you can call local, when your in the 905 area , it would be long distance.
exactly. And to top it off, if someone from 416 calls you, YOU pay long distance. I just went through all this with Robbers when I moved up to muskoka.
Same as your MY5, in fine print they write MY5 (local) not Canada wide like their land line.
It's all a crock since there is no "long distance" any longer. Long Distance used to cost more because you'd have to have an operator manually connect you to the next town over and so on until you reached your party. There is no "line" that has to be connected from here to there.
Back in the day as long as you were within a carrier's coverage area, you were local to call local. If someone called you, neither paid lond distance because there was no long distance connection. The only time you paid long distance is if you called home from your phone while outside your home area. I guess the carriers figured out that they could rip us off more by doing it this way.
I lived just north of highway 9 for a long time, and had a 416 cell phone. All of my incoming calls were considered local, and outgoing calls to 416 would be local. Some calls to 905 numbers were long distance, with Rogers. Generally speaking, if the cell tower that picks up your signal is south of highway 9, there will be no long distance charges. If you are in a 905 area, and you call another 905 number, even if your phone is a 416 number, it will only be long distance if it is a long distance call from the tower that picks up your call to the number you are calling eg Agincourt to Mississauga.
You could also consider the Canada One Rate with Rogers, no long distance on any calls with in Canada, but the per minute rate is higher. You could also consider Single Number Reach (SNR) with Bell, where you get a virtual land line number, and call forward via a website that number to your cell phone, or your home. It is about 20 per month.
You could also consider the Canada One Rate with Rogers, no long distance on any calls with in Canada, but the per minute rate is higher. You could also consider Single Number Reach (SNR) with Bell, where you get a virtual land line number, and call forward via a website that number to your cell phone, or your home. It is about 20 per month.
Make sure that you remove the +1 that is automatically put into your address book when you auto-add a number. By that, I mean someone calls you, and you just add it directly to your addressbook. You can do this by going to "Smart Dialing" options under the Phone Options menu (go to your phone screen and then look for option). Remove the country code...set it to 'Unknown'. This way, when you make a call from your phone, and if it's long distance, you will hear a message that states, "this is a long distance call, please wait while your call is connected". You can hang up or let it go through. The +1 I mentioned earlier sometimes lets the call go through without this message and you get hit with long distance charges if it is a long distance call (speaking from experience).
Also, if you are out of the local calling area of your phone (i.e. you have a 416 number and you are in the 905 area but that exchange is outside of the local range), you will be charged long distance charges for that incoming call. Check with Bell and ask them where the local calling area range is. You can also google it and find a map. Rogers recently changed theirs and reduced their local calling area to match Bell's and others....yet kept their rates the same!!! As a result, a lot of people got nailed with long distance charges for incoming calls that were free before.
Also, if you are out of the local calling area of your phone (i.e. you have a 416 number and you are in the 905 area but that exchange is outside of the local range), you will be charged long distance charges for that incoming call. Check with Bell and ask them where the local calling area range is. You can also google it and find a map. Rogers recently changed theirs and reduced their local calling area to match Bell's and others....yet kept their rates the same!!! As a result, a lot of people got nailed with long distance charges for incoming calls that were free before.
tboy's capsule history makes sense of what now only exists so the c arriers can complicate and mis-administer it to their benefit. Just above curious points out the hazards of daling the '1' for long distance, pointing out the system knows when it's an LD call. Odd that Bell Mobility can connect and bill the call but Bell landlines can only tell you to start again and dial '1'. Imagine them having to change some code to do what they automatically did when 905 was created. The cost!
Lotsa good work for the CRTC in this file.
Lotsa good work for the CRTC in this file.
Ya area code has nothing to do with it. Barrie and Sudbury are in the same area code, its a long distance call.
