Posted: 2/15/2009 9:44:00 AM EDT
| I live in a suburb of seattle. Caling seattle was always free. Just recently I tried calling 206 prefix,which is Seattle but sometimes got a need to dial 1 message. Are the phone companies separating all the prefixes and making them all long distance in the future?? |
| Take the tin foil off (for a while at least) Instead of splitting areas into two area codes the phone company is overlaying new area codes over old ones, and to make sure you get the one you want you need to dial the whole number. It's cheaper to do that than for all concerned than having people that get split out have to change their numbers everyplace. The directories stay accurate, etc etc. |
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I use a cell phone so its always 'metro' no matter where I'm calling. At work, I often have to dial a '1', but its up to the calling plan if you get hit for 'toll calls' or not, even if it's only 13 miles away. No I don't. We have 253/425/206 area codes. 206 is the oldest. in the 15 years i have lived in the 425 area,I have never had to dial a 1 to get a 206 number. |