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Originally Posted by 4X4
Totally a scam. One thing that irks me is that if I'm in Calgary and I call a friend on his cell phone and he's in Miami, neither of us pay long distance. If I'm in Kelowna with a friend and he's at the bar across the street, if I call his cell phone from my cell phone, I pay long distance.
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Oh, he's paying long distancefrom Calgary to Miami.... plus roaming likely.
In the second scenario, you both pay long distance. You pay from Kelowna to Calgary, he pays from Calgary back to Kelowna.
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I don't understand why long distance has to be so mysterious. The call is either long distance or it isn't.
As for our upcoming world changing event of a 3rd area code, if it's going to cover the whole province, calls from 403 to 587 or 780 to 587 should be considered local regardless of where they originate or end up. And for that matter, the whole province should be considered local. If you start dialing 250 or something, then yeah, fine, long distance. Just set boundaries and stick to them. Then nobody will care if there are 18 different area codes within Alberta. 10 digits. Fine. Make charges linear.
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It isn't mysterious. The problem is that cell phones move so it seems mysterious. There are boundaries though in some cases they are odd... for example if you're in Whistler you can call Vancouver and it's local but if you're in Vancouver, Whistler is long distance.
Hell, when training for Telus we spent a whole day on long distance scenarios so I could explain how long distance is charged to people.