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Originally Posted by kermitology
When you are overseas or call overseas numbers you learn to put +1 or +62 or +36 in front of numbers
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Sorry, I don't get this. Is there some other 403-555-5555 number on the planet I'm going to be calling while I'm in China getting a replacement liver from some "volunteer donator"?
Get a phone with the "Dial 1 + Number" feature on it if you need it in your gallumphing about the planet. Point is, if your phone is set up right, you're never going to make a long distance call to a local number. For that matter, I'm pretty sure if you TRY to dial a long distance call to a number that is local, the bitchy computerized Telus/Bell voice comes on the line and more or less lectures you on being a doofus, anyway, and doesn't put your call thru.
I know I used to get lectured by that voice quite a bit before I figured out that I shouldn't put the "1" in there (because I drive around the province and BC for work quite a bit, and thus am sometimes local to the numbers I have in my address book and sometimes not).
Of course, now some Luddite going to come on here and talk about his/her landline being a different story. To that person I say pre-emptively: "Hello, 1998! Show's over, time to pack it up!"