"DreadfulBitch" > wrote in message
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> On 6/17/2014 1:11 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> Well, if you didn't look at the link you wouldn't know. It spells out
>> all the hoops you'd need to go through to keep your number. I don't
>> know who your carrier is. But the link implies that it is complicated.
>> And I do know that Sprint wouldn't allow us to keep our number. But
>> that was almost 10 years ago. Or they would allow us but would double
>> tax us. And I wasn't willing to pay.
>
> I looked at the link after I posted here. It reads like it was written in
> 1998. My carrier is AT&T. Actually, when I first got the phone, in 2005,
> it was my mother's account. She lived in Denver and passed away in July
> 2005. I changed the billing to my address in Iowa and when we got back
> home we added two more phone lines to the account - for my husband and
> son. Initially, despite our Iowa address and the fact that we were
> sitting in an AT&T store in Iowa, we were assigned numbers with the area
> code 303 - Denver. At that point I wanted to have a number with our local
> area code and it took the better part of a day to accomplish, but it was
> done.
>
> We have never paid any kinds of roaming charges and all numbers in the US
> are "local."
>
> That link you provided is just bull hockey and not the least bit relevant
> in this millennium.

I will look later and see if I can find what Sprint says now. I have to
leave for dance so no time now. I do know that I used to pay roaming
charges. I had warned my husband of this. He kept making me call hotels
and make reservations when we were about 5 minutes away. I warned him that
roaming charges apply. When we got the bill for over $500, he freaked. I
think the last time I saw roaming charges, it was maybe 3 years ago? I was
at the dance studio. Their signal there seems a bit iffy. There have been
times recently when I can't get the Internet there either. Says something
about that it thinks I am a bot so it won't work. Then I get home and it
works.