[BC] Cell Phone Number Questions

[Jerry Mathis]

I would answer your question WITH a question: Why does it matter? Unless
they are billing you for calling OUTSIDE the town with the cell tower? My
cell service provider (Unicel) simply charges so much a minute under the
plan I have, and you get a whole bunch of free minutes, in fact incoming
calls are FREE, and this seems to be the commonly used type of plan now.

My biggest concern would be getting good coverage in the town I live in. If
they have that, what's the big deal?

Jerry Mathis

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. <
walkerbroadcasting at gmail.com> 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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-- 
Jerry Mathis