Cheap calls

Well, in the true sense of perfect timing that characterises Greece, I got my latest phone bill this morning.

386 euro.

I think it's dollar for euro at the mo, so work that one out...

On the plus side, 2 months of internet calls only seems to have cost 10 euro... so I'll be staying around here at least!
 
fi said:
Well, in the true sense of perfect timing that characterises Greece, I got my latest phone bill this morning.

386 euro.

I think it's dollar for euro at the mo, so work that one out...

On the plus side, 2 months of internet calls only seems to have cost 10 euro... so I'll be staying around here at least!
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:eek:
 
I'll call for the super extra dosed Viagra Triple Powered capsules ok? You can have it, desperate old man :D
 
It's almost better by yourself, at least when you're done, you can go to sleep, you don't have to 'talk'.
 
nalani said:
I just thought of something ... I can never understand how people on the continent figure out what's a local call and what's not. For us, it's easy .. if it's on the same island, it's a local call ... off the island, it's long distance
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Correct me if I'm wrong here peeps...but I think its a local call when its within their zipcode. When I went to CA, I was confused when my cousin told me to dial the 1+ the area code then the number when I was calling out of Modesto but in CA???

Strange those continent people :D
 
No, when you make a call, your call is picked up by the local exchange. It looks at the number, and decides if it can give you the line number of not. Ie if your telephone number is 905-555-1212 and you call 905-555-3842, the first exchange can give you the line number.

If it cannot give you the line, it forwards your request to another exchange. Once you pass through a certain number of exchanges OR a bigger exchanger, the call becomes long distance.

Calls that start with a 1 are long distance. If you don't dial a 1, you cannot be charged because the call is local. So, dialing 905-555-3842 is local. If the exchanger cannot complete the call as dialed, ie it will pass through too many exchanges, you will hear the message that this is a long distance call and you need to dial a 1.

Dialling the 1 will give the exchange permission to complete the call even if it is not local.

Dialling a 0 before will tell the exchanger that you will be using a calling card and that the local phone should not be billed.

Simple and elegant :)
 
Negative. Not by zip code. Its rather... complicated.

Lets take LA for example 1: In LA itself there are like 8-9 area codes and 250 zip codes. All local insofar as charges go. I couldn't rightly say where the breaker line is to make it a LD charge.

Hawaii example 2: one area code for the whole magilla... but still having LD chrages from island to island even though its all within the same umbrella. I don't know how many zip codes you have out there.
 
LastLegionary said:
No, when you make a call, your call is picked up by the local exchange. It looks at the number, and decides if it can give you the line number of not. Ie if your telephone number is 905-555-1212 and you call 905-555-3842, the first exchange can give you the line number.

If it cannot give you the line, it forwards your request to another exchange. Once you pass through a certain number of exchanges OR a bigger exchanger, the call becomes long distance.

Calls that start with a 1 are long distance. If you don't dial a 1, you cannot be charged because the call is local. So, dialing 905-555-3842 is local. If the exchanger cannot complete the call as dialed, ie it will pass through too many exchanges, you will hear the message that this is a long distance call and you need to dial a 1.

Dialling the 1 will give the exchange permission to complete the call even if it is not local.

Dialling a 0 before will tell the exchanger that you will be using a calling card and that the local phone should not be billed.

Simple and elegant :)
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By that rule, the interisland calling structure would require the 1-808 prefix on all calls even though its the same area code.
 
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