[BC] Cell Phone Number Questions

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

I KNOW there arefolks of you on this list who know more about cellphones and
can explain it to me.

I recently got a cell phone from US Cellular. When choing my number, I could
choose from one of 3 exchanges, none of which were in the town I lived in.
The town I live in, being the county seat and having the biggest population
in the county.  However, one provider, but ot the one I went with, DOES have
numbers right IN my town.

US Cellular gave me a number in a town 25 miles away in a town of 650
people!! That town is 1/4 the size population wise of the county seat and
right IN the county,

When I asked WHY they don't have local number, the Customer Service
Representative told me it was something to do with where their towers were
and where they were asked to do it.

Someone who actually knows what they're talking aobut.. Can you kindly tell
me what the deal is and how Cell Phone companies decide what locales get
local numbers over others?

Paul