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curiousgeorge202 said:
Totally wrong.blockquote>

I'm not sure if that was meant to sound rude or not. Either way, I would not say that I was "totally wrong". Yes, I may have said 'all' as a simple exaggeration, BUT most areas of the nation ARE simply required to dial the area code before all calls because of the growing population of phone numbers. Landlines and wireless. It may be that you, Curious George, live in a less populated area of the country. I have had Sprint, Verizon, AT&T Wireless, and Cingular in my area and all of these carriers required the area code to be dialed before a number for the call to be completed. Otherwise it simply could not perform any call because of the amount of different area cod

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I'm not sure if that was meant to sound rude or not. Either way, I would not say that I was "totally wrong". Yes, I may have said 'all' as a simple exaggeration, BUT most areas of the nation ARE simply required to dial the area code before all calls because of the growing population of phone numbers. Landlines and wireless. It may be that you, Curious George, live in a less populated area of the country. I have had Sprint, Verizon, AT&T Wireless, and Cingular in my area and all of these carriers required the area code to be dialed before a number for the call to be completed. Otherwise it simply could not perform any call because of the amount of different area codes in the surrounding area. Does it not make sense that you may very well buy ...
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here in suburban NYC (a heavily populated area) we do not need to dial an area code if the number we are calling is in the same area code. So the I would agree the above poster is wrong (or at least partially to fairly wrong for you detail oriented out there).

having to dial the area code indicates 1 of 2 things to me, you are either roaming (since cingular and ATT have a roaming agreement if you have an ATT phone and are on the Cingular network it will require you to enter the area code, and vice versa) OR your phone number is in the wrong service area, so when this happens let me know what provider is displayed on the top of your phone

Or it possibly could be you have to dial the area code now because of Local Number Portability as it is new to your area

LNP would not have anything to do with that, i think you mean an area code split

The only reason why one would have to dial an area code is to correctly route a call. The first responder was correct, With the large amount of phone numbers out there now, espcially with LNP, in certain areas one must dial an area code to route the call. An example is the New York Market, where one street may have a different area code from the next and it is required. Not only does each number have an area code to help route calls correctly, in many markets they also have wha'ts called a routing number which is an additional 10 digit number that is attached to the dialable number. Don't sweat the small stuff, as previous posters have said it is ony 3 more numbers and you do have the abilit yot add the area code to saved number in your phon...
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