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 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" 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-, the Belgian
> > numbers +32 (xxx) xxx-, 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
> >
>
