I travel quite a bit, and the whole point of storing all the numbers with their country code is so that they will dial just fine no matter where I am.
And for some reason it worked fine on my iPhone under AT&T. My guess is that Verizon, being a US-only carrier, defaults its network to assuming that all calls are being placed in the US. --------- Brian On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Joshua MacCraw <[email protected]> wrote: > We're not lazy, cellular network assumes +1 and unlike land line which > relies on the 1's tone to set it up in domestic dial > On Oct 3, 2013 6:47 AM, "Brian Weeden" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Recently switched from iOS to Android and am having trouble dialing > > numbers. All of my contacts have the country code included in the stored > > phone numbers. So all the US numbers are +1 (xxx) xxx-xxxx, the Belgian > > numbers +32 (xxx) xxx-xxxx, etc. > > > > But I can't actually dial any of the US numbers. When I try to do so, I > get > > a "network busy message". If I remove the country code, it works just > > fine. > > > > Googling around I discovered that it might be due to a feature called > > "Assisted dialing" which apparently is something for lazy Americans who > > don't realize that country codes exist. I have the feature turned off, > and > > expected my phone to just figure it out like my iPhone did. > > > > Short of going through all of my numbers and removing the +1 country > code, > > suggestions? > > > > > > --------- > > Brian > > >
