Oh boy, here we go again. This has to be my tenth time explaining this.
Toronto to Hamilton, no matter what your area code and the receiving party’s area code, it is a long distance call, even on a Province wide plan, because Hamilton and Toronto are NOT local dialing citys.
back in the day, before 10 digit dialing, we had local calling areas. As I do not know the local area calling for these two city’s, I will use Cambridge and Kitchener, both in 519, 226 and a new third areacode I do not recall.
A call from the former two towns of Preston and Galt, could call Kitchener as a local call, but the 3rd part of Cambridge, the village of Hespeler, had to call Long Distance to Kitcher, but could call the City of Guelph as a local call, when Preston and Galt could not.
Public Mobile does not include, in any package, local area calling, but to call what is still a long distance call on a landline, you still need to dial in the proper format. When you don’t dial long distance, they convert it for you, and warn you, just in case your plan requires extra charges to complete it (which will never happen on Public Mobile).
This is the a huge problem for provincial boundaries, where it’s a landline local call, but use your Province wide cell phone, and it won’t complete, unless you have LD addon available.
To get rid of the message, put +1 on every phone call, or update your contacts as such.
I still maintain that Public Mobile, and anyother cellular provider must respect local calling areas first, then increase to Province wide or nation wide plans thereafter.
