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n2jtx
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| Re: Roaming? said by Rogers1  :Rogers does not have domestic roaming, and hasn't for a long time. True but they do have long distance charges (remember those?). I was quite surprised to see a long distance charge for making a call from St. Catherines to Mississauga using a Toronto based (416 #) phone. That is something I do not see here in the U.S. any more.
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Snickerdo
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join:2001-02-28
Niagara Falls, ON
1 edit | Re: Roaming? said by n2jtx :True but they do have long distance charges (remember those?). I was quite surprised to see a long distance charge for making a call from St. Catherines to Mississauga using a Toronto based (416 #) phone. That is something I do not see here in the U.S. any more. It's St. Catharines 
Long distance on cell phones is handled the exact same way as a landline for outgoing calls. If you have a Toronto number assigned to your cell and you're out of the Toronto local calling area (of which St. Catharines is) making a call to Mississauga would be long distance, even though it's local to Toronto. You could, however, make a call to Niagara Falls, Welland, Fort Erie, whatever with that Toronto cell and, while in St. Catharines, those calls would be local.
The weird thing is with incoming calls. You pay long distance for -incoming- calls if you're outside of your local calling area, regardless of whether the call is being made from someone in Toronto or elsewhere. If someone in St. Catharines called your Toronto cell while you were in the city, not only would the person calling you pay LD for calling a Toronto number, but you would pay LD for the call being trunked from Toronto to St. Catharines. Someone from Toronto/Mississauga/Markham/etc who called your Toronto cell number wouldn't pay LD, but you'd pay LD for having the call trunked from Toronto to St. Cats.
And that, people, is how long distance on a cell phone works in Canada. Though, interestingly enough, we get a lot of unlimited LD on landlines down here, but not on cells. LD on a cell is a cash cow for the providers, as there is no way to switch to an alternative provider or use a 101 dial-around number.
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Rogers1
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Canada | Re: Roaming? its a little different in NB, Incoming calls here are only billed Long distance if we are out of New Brunswick, but I suspect that has something to do with NB being all one area code. | |
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Snickerdo
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Niagara Falls, ON
| Re: Roaming? said by Rogers1 :its a little different in NB, Incoming calls here are only billed Long distance if we are out of New Brunswick, but I suspect that has something to do with NB being all one area code. Area code has nothing to do with it, as there are areas in 289/905 that I can't call even though I'm in 289/905, yet everywhere in 416/647 can call parts of 289/905 and even 226/519. Probably has something to with the provider just choosing to do that.
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