Hello, I'm new here, and I cant seem to figure out how long distance works.

I'm with rogers, on there 150 anytime 1000 evening and weekend minutes plan, no added extras. I'm in Kingston (613) for 8 months of the year, so my number is 613. However, I am in Toronto for the summer, and I was wondering if because of roaming all my local calls (to 416/647) would be just charged against my 150/1000 minutes. My other question, was what about incoming long distance? I'm outside of my area, so do I get charged long distance rates if someone else calls me?

Thanks for your help :)

-Cameron

Simply put, for the purposes of outgoing calls, you have a "local" phone wherever you happen to be. So while in Toronto, all calls made from your phone to any number in the local Toronto calling area are local for you. Minutes from these calls deduct from your bucket of minutes (daytime or evening/weekend as appropriate) and do not incur long distance charges. If you make a weekend journey out of town then you will similarly be able to call locally within the area to which you travel. If you call "home" (Kingston) from abroad, you will be charged long distance even though your phone's "home" is in Kingston.

Now, as for incoming calls, you have the idea already. Your number is local to Kingston. Any call you answer from outside your phone's home calling area will be considered long distance for you, regardless of who calls you or from where the call is placed, and you will be charged as such. Minutes for these calls will still deduct from your bucket of minutes (daytime or evening/weekend as appropriate), but you will charged the current long distance rate (30 cents/min if I recall correctly) on top of the minutes usage.

if you live in kingston, then kingston is your local calling area. When you move to Toronto, you obviously take the phone with you, so that means you have to disconnect or move your rogers home phone service to the new city, no? oh wait, rogers wireless you mean? never mind, disregard my answer

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