Roaming in Ecuador

When roaming (from a US Cingular account) in Ecuador, do you have to dial 1
in front of a US telephone number? Or what?

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"mc" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> When roaming (from a US Cingular account) in Ecuador, do you have to dial
> 1 in front of a US telephone number? Or what?

Turns out you dial 011-1-areacode-number, just as when calling the US from
almost anywhere. Not just areacode-number as I suspected it might be.

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:14:02 -0400, "mc"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>"mc" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> When roaming (from a US Cingular account) in Ecuador, do you have to dial
>> 1 in front of a US telephone number? Or what?
>
>Turns out you dial 011-1-areacode-number, just as when calling the US from
>almost anywhere. Not just areacode-number as I suspected it might be.
>

Does Cingular's "3G" service (laptop and PC card) work in Ecuador?
Can you go through a local (cellular) number (in the large cities)?

Best,

Bob


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> Does Cingular's "3G" service (laptop and PC card) work in Ecuador?
> Can you go through a local (cellular) number (in the large cities)?

I don't know.

When you are in a foreign country and want to dial the USA you need to
dial 001 then area code
example 001-123-456-7890

"AV8R" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> When you are in a foreign country and want to dial the USA you need to
> dial 001 then area code
> example 001-123-456-7890

They said 011-1. That is, 011 for international and 1 for USA, plus area
code and number, to call the USA from Ecuador. That is certainly how we
call the USA from England. There may be systems that accept both.

"mc" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "AV8R" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>
>> When you are in a foreign country and want to dial the USA you need to
>> dial 001 then area code
>> example 001-123-456-7890
>
> They said 011-1. That is, 011 for international and 1 for USA, plus area
> code and number, to call the USA from Ecuador. That is certainly how we
> call the USA from England. There may be systems that accept both.
>
You can dial "+1" then area code and number (without the quotes of course).
I have all of my numbers stored with the +1 in front of the area code and
number. They all work this way both in the USA and in other countries, all I
have visited in the past year: Singapore, Taiwan, Mexico, UK, France,
Germany, Switzerland.

mc <[email protected]> wrote:
> "AV8R" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >
> > When you are in a foreign country and want to dial the USA you need to
> > dial 001 then area code
> > example 001-123-456-7890

> They said 011-1. That is, 011 for international and 1 for USA, plus area
> code and number, to call the USA from Ecuador. That is certainly how we
> call the USA from England. There may be systems that accept both.

I'd be very surprised if you called the USA from the UK by
dialing with a number starting "011" as anything with a single 0 is a
local call there. In most (but not all) countries outside of the USA
the international access prefix is 00, not 011. The only possible
reason that this would have worked for you is that, according to
http://www.ukphoneinfo.com, the 011 1 is unassigned, and this would have
meant the switch would be programmed to detect brain damaged dialing.
Even then, it doesn't make sense, you would be dialing an
internationally billable call with a national/local prefix and I just
don't think they would have allowed that to happen.




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On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:58:23 -0400, "mc"
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>"AV8R" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>
>> When you are in a foreign country and want to dial the USA you need to
>> dial 001 then area code
>> example 001-123-456-7890
>
>They said 011-1. That is, 011 for international and 1 for USA, plus area
>code and number, to call the USA from Ecuador. That is certainly how we
>call the USA from England. There may be systems that accept both.

011 is for USA landline access to international calling.
On a cell phone it's just +
example +1-123-456-7890
(the first 1 is the country code for the USA)
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