09-16-2013, 06:38 PM
Land Line to cell can work that way, not supposed to but it does. When you start a call from a LL phone it goes to the switch you tell it to, area code and then prefix. If that happens to be a cellular number, its home switch Should know where physically the cell is, through something called a Home Location Register (are your eyes glazing over yet?). The Home switch would then rout your inbound call (still on a trunk line from your home town to wherever) to an outbound trunk back to your home town cellular carrier and then out to the local cell tower. Smart systems figure all that out and re-rout your call straight to the local cellular carrier and eliminate all that LD in and out trunking. All the carriers are not up to date yet, some still in the MCI stone ages. Keep plugging at them, you may win, but its gonna cost you a lot of time talking to inbar yahooda in india.