Is a phone number from the U.S. a no go?

[nononsense31]

I have reached out politely to quite a few providers & agencies in the last week or so looking to book and have gotten no responses. I'm not sure if I have the wrong approach/first message or what.

I am putting 011 infront of the numbers so I assume the texts are going through.

Are numbers from the U.S. put on the back burner? Or is it common to not get responses for a week+ when trying to book?

 

[Forum mod]

If you are from the USA, you don't need to use 011, we are on the same country code as the USA. the number is 1-604-123-4567 for example. If you text 0116041234567 it will not go to Canada, but somewhere else in the world.....

 

[zippy45]

If you are from the USA, you don't need to use 011, we are on the same country code as the USA. the number is 1-604-123-4567 for example. If you text 0116041234567 it will not go to Canada, but somewhere else in the world.....

actuall from a quick google search canada is 011 but so is the cayman islands
EDIT but only if you are calling from the US because as usual they dont do a thing the same way as the rest of the world and probablly the moon\

 

[Forum mod]

Canada country code is 1. So is USA.

actuall from a quick google search canada is 011 but so is the cayman islands

Sorry Zippy, you are mistaken. 011 is the international phone access code, telling your phone company you want an overseas number, it's called the exit code. Then comes the country code. Canada, the USA and parts of the Caribbean use 1. full list of worldwide country codes is here. https://countrycode.org/ The next numbers for all country code "1" locations is the area code. Cayman Islands is 1-345 but 345 is the area code, just like 604 for BC/Lower Mainland or 416 for Ontario/Toronto.

From: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-International-Calls-from-the-USA

If you were in LA, area code 212 and want to call a 604 number in Vancouver, it would be 1-604-123-4567. If you were in LA and want to call anywhere outside of the US, Canada and those few Caribbean places, it would be 011, then the country code, then the rest of the number as per the structure of that country. Some countries have area codes like we do, others have city codes, the numbers can be short or pretty damn long.

• For a complete example, say you are calling the British Museum in London, England in the United Kingdom. To call from the U.S., you use the IDD number "011." The country code for the UK is "44," and the area code for London is "20." The rest of the phone number is "7323 8299." So, in total, you would dial 011 44 20 7323 8299 to place your call to the museum.

So if our OP friend was in LA and dialed 011-604-123-4567 he is going to get connected (or not depending on his luck and the phone system there) to a number in Malaysia, which uses country code "60". It would actually be 011-60-4-567. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Malaysia he'd actually need to enter a few more numbers to get through, since they use 7 or 8 numbers after the regional 4 code over there.

Long winded, sorry, but that's how it works.

 

[zippy45]

Canada country code is 1. So is USA.


Sorry Zippy, you are mistaken. 011 is the international phone access code, telling your phone company you want an overseas number, it's called the exit code. Then comes the country code. Canada, the USA and parts of the Caribbean use 1. full list of worldwide country codes is here. https://countrycode.org/ The next numbers for all country code "1" locations is the area code. Cayman Islands is 1-345 but 345 is the area code, just like 604 for BC/Lower Mainland or 416 for Ontario/Toronto.

From: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-International-Calls-from-the-USA

If you were in LA, area code 212 and want to call a 604 number in Vancouver, it would be 1-604-123-4567. If you were in LA and want to call anywhere outside of the US, Canada and those few Caribbean places, it would be 011, then the country code, then the rest of the number as per the structure of that country. Some countries have area codes like we do, others have city codes, the numbers can be short or pretty damn long.

• For a complete example, say you are calling the British Museum in London, England in the United Kingdom. To call from the U.S., you use the IDD number "011." The country code for the UK is "44," and the area code for London is "20." The rest of the phone number is "7323 8299." So, in total, you would dial 011 44 20 7323 8299 to place your call to the museum.

So if our OP friend was in LA and dialed 011-604-123-4567 he is going to get connected (or not depending on his luck and the phone system there) to a number in Malaysia, which uses country code "60". It would actually be 011-60-4-567. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Malaysia he'd actually need to enter a few more numbers to get through, since they use 7 or 8 numbers after the regional 4 code over there.

Long winded, sorry, but that's how it works.

I stand corrected by a person in orange even

 

[nononsense31]

Canada country code is 1. So is USA.


Sorry Zippy, you are mistaken. 011 is the international phone access code, telling your phone company you want an overseas number, it's called the exit code. Then comes the country code. Canada, the USA and parts of the Caribbean use 1. full list of worldwide country codes is here. https://countrycode.org/ The next numbers for all country code "1" locations is the area code. Cayman Islands is 1-345 but 345 is the area code, just like 604 for BC/Lower Mainland or 416 for Ontario/Toronto.

From: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-International-Calls-from-the-USA

If you were in LA, area code 212 and want to call a 604 number in Vancouver, it would be 1-604-123-4567. If you were in LA and want to call anywhere outside of the US, Canada and those few Caribbean places, it would be 011, then the country code, then the rest of the number as per the structure of that country. Some countries have area codes like we do, others have city codes, the numbers can be short or pretty damn long.

• For a complete example, say you are calling the British Museum in London, England in the United Kingdom. To call from the U.S., you use the IDD number "011." The country code for the UK is "44," and the area code for London is "20." The rest of the phone number is "7323 8299." So, in total, you would dial 011 44 20 7323 8299 to place your call to the museum.

So if our OP friend was in LA and dialed 011-604-123-4567 he is going to get connected (or not depending on his luck and the phone system there) to a number in Malaysia, which uses country code "60". It would actually be 011-60-4-567. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Malaysia he'd actually need to enter a few more numbers to get through, since they use 7 or 8 numbers after the regional 4 code over there.

Long winded, sorry, but that's how it works.

Thank you. I'm assuming this was the issue.

 

[zippy45]

I stand corrected by a person in orange even

I have always wondered how can more than 1 country have the same 1 country code, kinda implied in the name, its a country code

 

[kd75]

I stand corrected by a person in orange even

Thats how you know you made it in this world