[BC] Cell Phone Number Questions

[R A Meuser]

It might be better to not reverse engineer the situation. If you want a 
local number, get a second land line and then port that number to your 
cell. They have to do that by law.  It will cost a bit more, but solves 
the problem cleanly.



Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:
> 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
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