Long disrance run-a-round.

[Maggot]

Say that your Aunt Matilda moved from Florida and bought a house right across the street from you. Everyday you call her from your land line to her cell phone maybe just to say hi or see where the hell she is.
You get a phone bill the next month and it has a ton of long distance charges maybe 300.00 worth of all the calls you did to Aunt Matilda because she still had the Florida area code. Even though you could look out the window and wave to Aunty as you were talking.
Would the phone company reimburse you?

The answer next time on "Phone Drama llama ding dong theater"

[SIXFOOTERsez]

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.

[Duchess]

I think the phone company will negate the charges once it's explained to them.

The last time I vacationed in the North Country the cottage I was renting didn't have internet so I used a wireless adapter on my laptop to pick up a signal and every friggin' time I signed on I was picking up a tower in riviere-Beaudette and being charged a call for however long I was online. The phone company ate the charges.

[Tammy75]

I think that the average person would realize that long distance on a landline is long distance?

[QueenBee]

I have nothing to add, but wonder if anyone else sees the words turned orange and underlined to a link? Phone and cellular are words of note. The link is to advertising type sites.

Edit to add: Figured it out. I downloaded a program that seemed to have included some adware. Pisses me off, as I got it from CDNet, which I usually trust

[Maggot]

It is a true story and yes the phone company ate the charges.

I will never call carsman at 1AM ever again just to breathe heavy and hangup.

[SIXFOOTERsez]

I will never call carsman at 1AM ever again just to breathe heavy and hangup.

Good Call

[Carsman]

It is a true story and yes the phone company ate the charges.

I will never call carsman at 1AM ever again just to breathe heavy and hangup.

I knew it, I knew that was you!!! Sweet revenge will be mine!