Local telephone calls

[rov1200]

What signifies a local call, is it with the same dialling code, all the numbers contained in your telephone directory, a radius of so many miles from your telephone or what?

[roslyn251254]

Must be within a certain radius because from Derby local callls could be to 01332 Derby, 0115 Nottingham, 01773 Heanor. 0845 are also classed as local calls

[gina32]

it depends on the question, as silly as it may sound, is it something to do with your phone contract?

[cherrychapstick]

a local call is usually within a certain radius of where you are although it varies from phone company i stay in scotland and my local calls from my phone are starting with 01 or 02 but phone your company up and ask them about it they will be able to give you exact details of where you can phone

Cherry

[Old_Geezer]

As I understand it, a local exchange will connect directly to all telephones in your local area. That makes calls to those telephones local calls. If you have a high density of phones in an area then for a set number of connections from the local exchange, the area served has to be smaller. If you have a low density then the area server can be larger.

You can tell a local call as it does not need the local area code dialled, i.e. the 0xxx bit at the start. The moment you enter an initial 0 you are telling your local exchange that they have to "trunk" this call over to a different exchange, and so it is not a local call.

In these days of computerised exchanges they may be able to modify the above, but I think it is still adhered to. Which is why if too many folk in an area request a phone line a second exchange needs to be installed, half the numbers ported over to it and it's new area code, and lots of phones that were "local" previously are now no longer local.