Three Stars of Seinfeld boycott DVD deal

[KrazyHorse]

I didn't even find out I'd been charged twice until I got my bank statement the next month.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Local service here costs like half that (when you take conversion into account).

:shrug: Do you have a per call fee up in Canada?

[JohnT]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Also, what the **** is up with the ****ing huge size of the phone bills in the US? Just to have a local line is costing me 22.50 plus some **** 7.50 "federal universal service charge".

What's up with that ****? Local service here costs like half that (when you take conversion into account).

In Atlanta, "local service" means 30,000,000 potential phone numbers. How many for your local calling area in Canada?

[KrazyHorse]

Not unless you're calling somebody long distance.

But then again local phone service is still regulated here, so it hasn't suffered from the inefficiencies of the free-market system.

[Imran Siddiqui]

local phone service is still regulated here, so it hasn't suffered from the inefficiencies of the free-market system.

Local service used to be regulated here too.... it was more expensive back then.

In Atlanta, "local service" means 30,000,000 potential phone numbers

I love that .

[JohnT]

You mean like potential free access to 30,000,000 numbers? Again, how many in your local calling area?

[JohnT]

Here in Knoxville, it's only 10,000,000 potential numbers. But, then, we're pretty small compared to the ATL.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by JohnT


In Atlanta, "local service" means 30,000,000 potential phone numbers. How many for your local calling area in Canada?

Uh, that sounds wrong to me. In Baltimore you can call anybody in the 410 or 443 (which is the cell phone prefix) for free, but there are definitely areas of the state which are long distance (I've called them).

Montreal has 1.5 free area codes (514 and, depending on how far out you are, 450).

Ah. Rereading, you're saying 30 mil potential phone numbers

Toronto's up to that too, now.

EDIT: 3 hours late, caught a mistake. Montreal's second area code is 450

[Imran Siddiqui]

Ah, Atlanta has 3 free area codes.

[KrazyHorse]

Oh, I forgot: there's also a new cell phone prefix for Montreal, but I'll be damned if I can remember what it is.

So 2.5 prefixes in Montreal, 3 in Toronto

[JohnT]

Is a "prefix" the same as an "area code"? (Probably, I just wanna make sure...)

Anyway, in ATL all numbers in the 404, 678, and 707 area codes are free. And, upon reflection, it doesn't really add up to 30,000,000 as no numbers begin with "0" or "1", which leaves 24,000,000.

[FrustratedPoet]

Someone please tell me that John isn't spending the precious family time before christmas talking about telephone numbers on the internet?

Does this guy ever take a break? (j/k)

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by JohnT
Is a "prefix" the same as an "area code"? (Probably, I just wanna make sure...)

Anyway, in ATL all numbers in the 404, 678, and 707 area codes are free. And, upon reflection, it doesn't really add up to 30,000,000 as no numbers begin with "0" or "1", which leaves 24,000,000.

There are other rules too.

No number can start with a 911, or a 411, or a 611...

[Imran Siddiqui]

[q]No number can start with a 911, or a 411, or a 611...[/q[]

I wonder if that is the case, because in Atlanta you have to dial the area code to call anywhere, because of all the numbers or something like that.

[KrazyHorse]

That's the stupid thing I noticed in Balto.

Here, if you're in 514 and dial a 7 digit number it assumes that you're dialing a 514 number. To dial to 450 you need to hit 450, though.